This makes me so mad (and sad)

[daybyday]

http://news.yahoo.com/rural-suicides-me ... 57613.html

What can we do to change this? How can they cut medicaid for these people?

[daybyday]

http://news.yahoo.com/rural-suicides-me ... 57613.html

What can we do to change this? How can they cut medicaid for these people?

[Crystl]

I don't understand either daybyday..
the government cut funding here one day out of the blue and I lost my psychologist appointments until next February.
She is an amazing woman and helped me so much ...
I was in the middle of a 'crisis' (total breakdown) when they did that..
I can't even begin to say how I feel about the way people with mental health issues are treated because I would be banned from here!
When I see how much money governments waste or give a way I get so upset..
it could be better used in the treatment of Mental Health..

[insearchofpeace]

Hello Daybyday..... So strange...I had thought about you yesterday and was wondering how you have been doing...and then see you posted... That article is so disturbing....what is wrong with our governing bodies..???!!! There seems to be no moral-compass guiding the world anymore..... The endless dollars poured into the exploitation of everything toxic and short-sighted and destructive on this planet....while saving pennies on the very most precious and vulnerable aspects of society.... : -(
Can you imagine....with the WHO's estimate of one million people a year taking their own lives....what the 'true path of destruction' of that figure actually costs society in the end...!? One million people who die by suicide translates into MILlions of people struggling with it's aftermath.... And we all know too well, don't we, the difficulty ensued by that aftermath. Even if those 'cold' 'powers-that-be' can't empathize from a 'human' standpoint....you would think they would at least have the sense to see it from a 'dollar' standpoint. There simply has to be a huge financial impact period with millions of SOS every year struggling to cope, missing work, needing meds, burdening the already burgeoning healthcare system...
Where oh WHERE did common sense go.......?... When will humanity become 'human' again..... : -(
Praying for peace.......love to all dealing with the 'aftermath'.......x

Hope you have been doing well Daybyday....((hugs)) and love to you and yours....x

[Blossom]

I took part in a survey by an esteemed charity that provides post-vention suicide support in Oz to a significant percentage of those in need (but yes, the tentacles don't always reach into rural areas). It was aimed at pinning down the financial repercussions. I guess it was a necessary arrow in their appeal for government funding. The funny thing is, here in Oz, we have had a huge government backed push in the last few years, for mental health to be recognised as a health issue - simply that, a health issue like any other, and deserving of funding support. The recent cuts to the number of subsidised appts for counselling/psychologist (from 18 per year to 10 per year) leave a lot of people in limbo...and a month between appts is a long time when one is in a state of ongoing crisis. Many are probably able to move on to other group or community support, but many may also need continued one on one support. Cutting that ongoing access is a turn-around, so puzzling, even in light of the WFC belt tightening....and it compounds the problems.

[Bereaved1]

George Carlin always helps me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bICwyV5p ... re=related