bipolar thread: how Trump can fix America's mental health crisis but also stop opioid addiction

[sealybobo]

let me begin by offering this thought: someone who smokes could be considered to be of weak mental health.

half of all US children, 4 million folks, diagnosed with mental health probs dont receive treatment. this varies greatly from state to state. in North Carolina, 70 percent of children are untreated.

State-level policy, and perhaps even federal policy, must be reformed in order to make mental healthcare and counseling more accessible to our youth, before their problems are magnified and expressed in adulthood

as for opioids, developing non-addictive painkillers is the holy grail of solving opioid addiction!

Should people who are bipolar be on full disability?

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), about 2.8% of U.S. adults have bipolar disorder in a given year, and 4.4% have had it at some point in their lives. This translates to about 5.7 million adults in the U.S. being affected by bipolar disorder each year.