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It s always difficult to open up when it comes to struggles with mental health, but this challenge can be especially daunting for men.
North Range Behavioral Health aims to break down that stigma and help people find wellness. Offering counseling, crisis support and more, the community mental health center is here to guide Northern Coloradans on a path to hope and healing.
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We interviewed
Larry Pottorff, Executive Director of North Range Behavioral Health, about the challenges surrounding mental health for men and how important it is to seek help.
Colorado was in poor shape to handle 2020’s confluence of crises. This year’s heightened mental health needs have run headlong into a complex, ever-shifting constellation of decades-old challenges: the state’s higher-than-average prevalence of high-risk mental health conditions; a backlog of demand caused by a thicket of red tape among state agencies and private insurers; a behavioral health workforce shortage compounded by low rates of psychiatrists and psychologists who accept public or private insurance;
cultural stigma; and slow public and political recognition that mental health is as important as physical health.
For communities of color that have a history of trauma and lack of access to health care, the need has been especially acute.
Photo courtesy Marc Piscotty
Betty Torres, 38, of Denver, walks at Garfield Lake Park in Denver one afternoon. Torres was diagnosed and hospitalized with COVID-19 back in March and has mostly recovered, but lost her grandfather to the virus and had it work its way through her entire family. Torres was scared to leave the house for a while after struggling to overcome COVID for fear of being exposed again.
By Tina Griego
Colorado News Collaborative
On Denver’s west side, an elderly man had been managing his solitude just fine until the pandemic hit, taking with it what social life he had and leaving in its place a loneliness he had not felt for years.
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