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Opinion: As a psychiatrist, I have seen how the current emergency response system fails my patients

Print Rafla-Yuan, M.D., is a psychiatrist and legislative director of the San Diego Psychiatric Society. He lives in Point Loma. Fifty years ago, if you fell and broke your leg or had a heart attack, there likely weren’t ambulances around. Instead, someone called 911 and the police came to take you to the hospital. It wasn’t until the 1970s when national policy changes and grassroots advocacy led to the emergency medical services (EMS) model we rely on today. Assembly Bill 988 gives us the opportunity to similarly update our mental health emergency response with the same important premise: Mental health emergencies need trained professionals, not police.

The wellness industry is no substitute for real mental health care – People s World

Public Domain DETROIT Sara, a part-time community organizer for a non-profit here, often treats her depressive symptoms intense sadness and anxiety, insomnia, irritability, and decreased interest in her prior hobbies as well as her head and stomach aches with incense, crystals, herbal teas, bath bombs, and meditation. Sara had a lot of past trauma, which often manifests itself in thoughts of suicide and sometimes actual attempts, but she considers therapy out of the question. She says she has neither the time nor the money to get into treatment. She spends most nights at an art studio she rents with other local artists, and she would have to consider drastic lifestyle changes to make relief through psychotherapy a possibility in her life. So she’s left with the choice: Take any “free” time and excess funds and put it all into years of therapy, or enjoy her passions in that “free” time. The view supposedly popular among the young healthy set today is clear: If she opts for

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