Mental Health Reform

 Millions of Americans Citizens cope with Mental Health and Mental Health related issues. There is a great need for an awareness and a movement that is diligent. We must subtract results and answers that are unacceptable to the needs of facilities, staff and diagnosed citizens.  Not only has the United States Government and its lawmakers operated Mental Health facilities from behind oak desk, but they have also failed the people who cope with Mental Specialties due to the lack of experience, resources and knowledge of its effects and results on the lives of the people that they are appointed to protect, support, help and educate.

It is impossible for a group of individuals to recognize or relate to consumers if these persons have never been victim or consistently exposed to these circumstances. Just as a man cannot describe the prejudices and injustice that a gender or ethnicity may experience in modern society or the emotional and personal effects that a person may endure under these circumstances unless it is a first-hand account.  Is it possible for lucrative organizations to be sympathetic and empathetic to the needs of people without the ending result being one of financial gain?  The need for change in these studies and establishments have been long overdue.  No longer can we accept the bare minimum in health care and in our governing facilities. We cannot continue to permit pencil pushers and lawmakers to make decisions that improve their financial stature while eliminating services that are offered to Mental Health consumers.  We as consumers and staff have been subjected to the least amount of quality Health Care and services pertaining to the needs of individuals who cope with Mental Health and related health concerns.  This system and current blueprint do not allow growth past psychological treatment and development in appointed governing facilities.  Although these facilities are necessary for recovery, they do not provide consumers or staff with programs and resources to pursue financial, health and educational information or services. The consistent support needed for integration back into a mainstream society should be a necessary mandating policy adopted by law and Congress through SSI and Medicaid. Staff and consumers need these resources readily available and immediately.  Consumers that are enrolled in housing programs are often left to consume medicines, age and become desolate and isolated in areas that offer little to no resources, community assistance, activity, transportation,

socialization or opportunities geared towards a symptom reduced wellbeing. Mental Health Citizens are the consumers of thousands of medications designed to stabilize and conduce symptoms and triggers of Mental Specialties; they are simply hamsters in a cage being medically treated; experimental subjects that are diagnosed and categorized by medicine and definition.  If our existence is such a phenomenon according to dictionary definitions then why are we represented through media, movies and propaganda as lunatics and madmen? We are a bigotry perpetuated by the fear of the unknown. Why are we presented to the public as the primary contributors of violence, hate and malevolent behavior?

The false interpretation of the Mental Specialties has encouraged stereotypical dialogue and promoted the stigma that individuals coping is a menace to society. A revolution is necessary not only to bring these concerns and issues to the attention of lawmakers but also to educate the global public. The time for change is needed now. Our proposal is equivalent to the women's and civil rights movement, gender and racial equality, domestic and wildlife, human and galactic, plant and air, sea and land. We need a reform that is globally respected and protected. These needs must be met without dalliances. Each moderate to severe case of Mental Specialties is uniquely different with similarities and commonalities but individually must be respected as a singular diagnosis and not a collective classification.

The need for a more extensive, modern and scientific approach in research is still prevalent to this present day as it was centuries ago. The advances in medicine and technology should reflect in care and recovery.      

The primary purpose of these programs is to instill coping mechanisms, awareness, life skills, support, counseling, resources and personal development among peers, families and the communities.       Services alone is a fraction of the solution when working with individuals who seek help past psychological assistance.   We need research and development geared toward holistic, herbal and metaphysical healing. 

The traditional methods pertaining to new age circumstances and people are prehistoric and obsolescent. The narrative that is presently presented has drowned out the voices of the afflicted and prevented possible discussions and remedies for these issues that plague the Mental Health Community.  The present-day structure that is in existence is more in place for the benefit of the financial capitalization of care providers, institutions, pharmaceutical companies, lobbyist and government sanctions and not in place to provide consumers with the consistent care and necessary assistance to overcome obstacles in order to achieve recovery and wellness of the highest magnitude.    It is impossible to represent the needs of consumers when the lives of Mental Health patients are based on financial gain as a prioritization.

Consumers are worth trillions when being treated by labs, financial institutions, health organizations and facilities yet worthless and helpless when untreated and unprotected by law and legislation. A healthy price tag without reinvestment or restructuring. Society will have no hash tag for those who have suffered and died misunderstood and alone.

 The life expectancy of Mental Health consumers is less than the average healthy American due to the lack of resources, research, funding and opportunity available through grants for government operated facilities and private organizations.  Having Mentally Specialties is equivalent to any life threatening or altering illness, yet we have been back burned as our public officials find new ways daily to reduce and cut services, budgets laws and training.

 From our viewpoint the perception that has been given is that Mentally Specialties are not a prioritized concern and more importantly are a non-factor when determining which and what services will remain available or discontinued. These judgments can only affect those that are presently affected more.  We are no longer asking that our health concerns be respected but we are demanding that our rights as citizens be protected and preserved.   The acceptance for minimum accommodations can no longer be accepted by consumers while government officials continuously provide excuses and reasoning for the discontinuance and neglect of our well-being in the Mental Health community.

We are in need of a revolt, a revolution. We are demanding accountability from law makers and Health Care officials concerning our developmental needs and the expansion of resources and education and funding.   The time has come to stand united for our rights as humans and stand up to the injustice being perpetrated on behalf of the Mental Health community through media, medicine, law and legislation. The Mental Health community is desperately in need of advocacy, constituents and representatives that are prepared to bring these important matters to the forefront. Where do your appointed officials stand on these matters and where will you stand when the issues are brought before Congress and ballot?