Mental Illness in my community

martianexpatriate for Mental Illness in America

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Monday August 26, 2013 · 6:56 PM PDT

2013/08/26 · 18:56

The mentally ill are usually the first people to be effected by budgetary cuts, and the latest ones are no exception. I'm starting a group dedicated to talking about issues that have to do with mental illness. I plan on writing a series of articles about how changes in medical coverage are currently effecting them, and their lives in general.

I don't think that even those sympathetic to the mentally ill are always aware of what's going on with them. They are a group of people with very little voice in the community. I hope that others will join, and anyone who would like to join and contribute their own diaries to the subject is welcome.

I live in Pueblo, Colorado, which has long had an institution called Spanish Peaks Mental Health Center. It is the institution serving virtually every person with mental illness in Pueblo, because all the doctors who accepted Medicare were under its umbrella. It is partially funded by donors.

Recently, nine doctors quite Spanish Peaks Mental Health Center on the same day.

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