In reply to Introverted Agitator. Definitely not a priority with our Board of Supervisors. Mental health funding is grossly inadequate. It is cruel to deny people the help they deserve.
Thousands and thousands of veterans have been left on their own to handle severe forms of distress including PTSD, suicidal thoughts, depression, and loneliness in their fight for mental health. Both the VA and society at large have failed them and made little effort to help except to tell them it's all in their head […]
Knowing first-hand while advocating for someone troubled with deep and unrelenting mental health trouble and pain, I have witnessed the mental health services in Shasta County as impotent - at times incompetent - yet very lucrative to the psych-holders utilizing convenient TeleDocs, in an over-capacity meat market of innocent souls re-drugged toward silence and stigma. […]