It’s World Mental Health Day. And this year, U.S. policy changes are quietly making therapy, medications, and crisis lines harder to reach. The treatment of mental health/mental illness is more in peril than ever before. I, of course, am talking about the changes that the Republican administration has made in the United States. Donald Trump wouldn’t know mental health if it sat on his lap and started to wiggle, and while that’s bad, what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing is even worse because it is actively working to harm people with mental illness. For World Mental Health Day, let’s go back to the facts around mental health and mental illness to fight the anti-science changes being rolled out in the United States.
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