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acitivist, advocacy, Advocate, bipolar, death, depression, life expectancy, mental health, mental illness, mentally ill, psychiatry, schizophrenia, Treatment
This article is depressing and shocking. On average, mentally ill people live twenty years less than other people in the United States. This is totally unacceptable. I hear the voice of outrage over many things here – police brutality, racism, sexism, etc. but I long to hear the outrage over the treatment of the mentally ill.
It is just so very quiet.
Agreed. Completely unacceptable.
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I agree!!
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This is very interesting to me. One reason my German friends Hanna and Niko wanted to immigrate to the U.S. was because they were convinced that Niko would receive better care for his schizophrenia hand live in a friendlier culture with less stigma. Now I wonder….
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It doesn’t appear that they would have found better treatment here.
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