Do you think that the government should put more effort into promoting mental health awareness?

[Anonymous]

Do you think that the government should put more effort into promoting mental health awareness?

Please don't judge anyone.

Everyone has their own opinion.

Comment down below what you think.

Yes👍

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[lightbulb27]

promote yes, access yes.. but government sucks and is the sickness. People need to put mental health into this country. Unless you deal with the core human issues and underlying traumas as well as provide hope, then who gets helped? Religion addresses these things, parents address them.

I think we should put God back into society... it was removed, and it causes a lot of problems when there is no focal point.

Go to church, read some spiritual books, pray, meditate, turn off social media and the phone, take awalk in the woods... all very cheap.

anyone can change, but changing whole society is difficult... we've gone far down this path.

[Sixgunsound]

If they legitimately want to help people that are suffering, yes. But, as is typically the case in politics, if they intend to use it to deprive people of rights freedom or the ability to resist an agenda, then no I don’t support that. Almost everything that happens in government does so because it is a moving part in support of an agenda. Government exist to grow and control those that considers beneath itself, so any expansion, even one that looks good on paper, should not be undertaken lightly.

[SphynxUK]

I think there is a lot of emphasis already. What there isn’t any of is support. It’s very limited in the UK. Someone in crisis can wait half an hour for someone to answer and even then it doesn’t often help. A therapy is limited to 6 sessions then your out on your own. Mentally unwell people can do and say things out of the ordinary, so get arrested by police, put in a cell overnight and are shipped back out the next day. It isn’t good enough.

[Aerissa_Jade]

Yes and support... also doing things to help prevent mental health issues. A great deal of mental health issues are created by the government.

I often hear that I need therapy or people (who obviously have never done therapy) think that it is a fix all to anything that ever happens.

I've had thousands and thousands of hours of therapy, it doesn't help like people think it does.

[Anonymous]

We are so behind on understanding neurodiversity it’s not even funny.
Someone breaks an arm or leg, just visit a local urgent care for a wheelchair, crutches, get a cast, pain pills, etc.
Visit an urgent care with depression or anxiety and they’ll have absolutely nothing for you. Need to find your own therapist you’re comfortable seeing, schedule an appointment, see them a few times, etc and maybe they’ll get to the bottom of it (which takes 1+ years).


I’m convinced that I have some form of Dyslexia without any major symptoms but I’ve never been officially diagnosed. All the tests I’ve ever taken are bubble in questions and Random performance tests that don’t really conclude shit. We have SO MUCH to learn about how brains work it’s not even funny. No thanks to the silent and boomer generations.

[JulianGronkowski]

Yes. It appears we are socially conditioned to believe that you work to live. While it’s great to take pleasure in your career, I don’t think devoting the vast majority of your life to a job is particularly healthy. It is important to have time of to enjoy life: time to enjoy hobbies, friends, and family. Of course mental health problems can stem from a lot more than being overworked/not having enough time to enjoy life, but I strongly believe today’s working culture is a significant contributing factor. Do your job and what you need to live the life you want, but don’t work yourself to death.

[Chazmatazz269]

No. I think the government ranges between inept and corrupt on any given day and on any given issue. Citizens should be more knowledgeable and accepting of mental illness and mental healthcare. We should mobilize to influence companies and organizations to be more understanding, accepting and helpful as well. Leave the government out of it. They’re ruining enough fundamental crap already! Ell oh ell!

[BCA6010]

In what context, though? The USA's approach to mental healthcare is to plow you with drugs and become a permanent subscriber/dependent of pharmaceuticals, which is frankly not a solution and frequently makes things worse in the long run. We also have a culture that glorifies victimhood and helplessness, and wears sleughs of mental health issues as badges. Getting a bunch of suits to add mental health to their campaign rhetoric isn't going to do much.

[Andridaca]

True power is in the people, and to answer your question: maybe.

Every school has a councilor (I apologize for my incorrect spelling).

There is a national hotline.

There is free online therapy.

I don't know much else that can be done.

[Steamnir]

I think promoting mental Awareness would screw the corporation world we live in and would screw the rich people, so government won't do that

[DoctorSex]

Why would they? Consumerism is built on the backs of unhealthy addictions.

Kind regards,

DoctorSex

[Alexa41991]

I think they should, because at least where I leave there's a lot of mental health problemas and little information/help for them

[KrakenAttackin]

Not just awareness but treatment. For a man in the US to be diagnosed with a mental illness is to be put on watch lists, made the target of "red flag laws", and fave a MUCH higher likelihood of imprisonment and suicide.

[dustybiker]

I think the world needs to focus more on healthcare accessibility

[Anonymous]

Maybe for people who genuinely can't function because of the pain they feel. Some people think other's pain doesn't really matter because they have the ability to suppress their own, but not everyone is so lucky.

[trans3]

I think there isn't enough awareness now in men's mental health. So many guys commit suicide it's scary. I do believe in the loneliness epidemic I think it's hitting men harder.

[AngryCarl]

I think it should be less about promoting awareness and more about providing treatment.

[msc545]

Yes, unless you enjoy sick teenagers with guns shooting up children's schools.

[ThatMadGuy]

No, because too much awareness can cause more chaos.

Just like how they dealt with gender differences

[Anonymous]

They already are

[Anonymous]

Oh absolutely.