Has anyone else noticed

[BrendaBrick]

what little, if at all, attention is given to the enormous wide-spread emotional turmoil this broken economy is causing to so many people? I know it is out there, yet you sure wouldn't think so by the absence of press coverage along these lines.

I know my own County Mental Health Department is absolutely slammed with either folks that have been laid off or fear that they might be - yet...crickets.

And it is just such a major disconnect for me to watch (selective) TV and you would think that nothing in the world is wrong. I know. It is naive to say that - still, though.

I guess some of the 99% stories as of late subscribe to this and I am glad that there is exposure of that...but by and large, the devastating emotional impact this is having on so many lives largely remains under the radar and this just really frustrates me.

I guess I just needed to vent a little and thought this would probably be the safest forum in which to do so ~

[Tobin S.]

1. Mental health issues are always swept under the rug

Until they become too obvious and dramatic to ignore. By then, a lot of times, it's too late. The damage is done.

The American people are so ignorant about mental health problems that they don't usually recognize mental illness when they see it. My folks didn't. They just thought I was an asshole for the 10 solid years that I went without help after the onset of my illness. I didn't even know I was sick which turns out the be a symptom in about a third of people who have a mental illness.