An estimated 43.7 million American adults -- 18.6 percent of all adults in the U.S. -- suffer from a mental illness. But only 13.4 percent of U.S. adults get any mental health treatment at all. The reasons why are complex and include structural policy problems like the lack of mental health research and a growing psychiatrist shortage.
There's at least one way that all of us, however, can help more people get the care they need. It's through understanding and combatting the stigma associated with mental illness.
Mental health experts and thought leaders Mohini Venkatesh of the National Council for Behavior, John MacPhee of the Jed Foundation and William Emmet of the Kennedy Forum discussed the issue of stigma in mental illness with psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz at a panel last week during the 2015 Clinton Foundation Health Matters Summit in Indian Wells, California. During the event, they zeroed in on some crucial ways communities can help more people who suffer from mental illness get the care they need...
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