The year 2020 has been very difficult for mental health. The pandemic, isolation and economic downturn has greatly increased depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. When we talk about real health care reform, we mean a major expansion of mental health services.
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Be careful with that one Senator. Big Pharma would love to take it over for you. The best mental health services are #Medicare4All, #CancelStudentDebt & easier access to education. Treat people’s despair by taking away their hopelessness; that’s the best mental health care of all
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Yes, but lets not forget those with serious mental illness, e.g. psychotic disorders, require more intensive, specialist support also, not just an alleviation in their despair. We trivialise serious mental illness when we conflate it with deapair or lack of meaning.
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Replying to @ibeentoleeds @BernieSanders
I agree with you although I don’t think it trivializes those disorders to point out the other issue. Both are very true and both are very real. Big Pharma has a beneficial place in treating the former, but has staked out a very illegitimate profit center overtreating the latter.

Nov 25, 2020 · 9:53 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @BernieSanders
I agree with the goal of big pharma to medicate it's the same goal of the mental health clinic. I left that system seven years ago. If they can focus on medication but not education you don't recover until you discover. I have Bipolar disorder and I refused to accept my former
Replying to @marwilliamson @BernieSanders
Doctors prognosis 27 years ago and I chose to get a part-time job and then my GED and enrolled in cosmetology school and had a son nine years ago, wrote three books and went back to school almost two years ago working on my bachelor's degree at age 45. I saw a pattern in the
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Replying to @marwilliamson @BernieSanders
People at the mental health clinic they just took medication and didn't believe they could achieve and I couldn't be a part of that system.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @BernieSanders
I agree. Existential concerns, like despair and meaning, by definition affect all people. I only worry that blurring mental distress with mental illness can impoverish public understanding of psychosis, mania, and other significant situations in acute psychiatry.
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