Some 43 years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 that instituted a nationwide network of community mental health centers, the system is failing. With continuing cuts in federal, state and local aid that fund these centers, the …
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Please help me to find a psychologist for my brother who is suffering from severe depression. He is feeling so miserable and make me and his children miserable too. We keep taking his to regular drs. they give him different medication like zolaft etc…. But nothing seems to help me so far.
I wish he had cancer or some other incurable disease so we know help him but we don’t understand his disease he always feel miserable and I can not help him. He has medicare and medical.
Please help us what can we do for him?
Thanks for the great article. I agree that community mental health services needs more support!
No one is going to control my life. I have a very bad temper and I know that if I go to a place like this they would lock me up and never go home and fill me full of pills. They may be good for some people. But I shall never go to a place like this. With the experience I just had in a mental health unit I will never go again no mater how suicidal I feel.