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Three Cheers- A Seven Year Slump is Slowly Moving Forward
March 6, 2008 in Access to ED Care/Treatment, Accurate Information Campaigns in ED's, anorexia, Anorexia and Depression, Anorexia Nervosa, Behavioral Health, Big Pharma, Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa, Consumer Alert, DSM-IV Criteria for ED's, DSM-V and Expanded ED Criteria, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Mental Health, ED advocacy, ED Coalition, ED Hope & Recovery, Eli Lilly, eliminating stigma, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, family, Family & Friends Network (PFN), Family Education/Resources, Government, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Health Care, Health Care For All, Health Insurance Discrimination, Human Rights, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Insurance Coverage and ED's, Insurance Disparity, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy for Equality in Insurance Covera, Mental Health America, Mental Health Discrimination, Mental Health Parity, news, NYSE LLY, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates, Paul Wellstone Mental Health & Addict Equity Act, Personal, Personal Empowerment, Personal Stories, Policy & Action, Policy Analysis, Public Education of ED's, Public Policy, Society, Thoughts | Tags: Anorexia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa and Mental Health, Behavioral Health, Bulimia Nervosa, Business and Corruption, Corporate Greed and Mental Health Parity, Eating Disorder Coalition, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders and Insurance Coverage, EDC Lobby Day, Eli Lilly and Bias, Empowered Families, Empowered Parents, Empowered Patients, Erasing Mental Health Stigma, Families Against Mental Health Discrimination, family, Government, Health, Health and Family Services, Health Care Advocacy, Health Care For All, Health Law Advocates, Human Rights, Insurance, Insurance Coverage and Eating Disorders, Insurance Disparity, La Follette School of Public Affairs, media, Mental Health Parity Bill Hr 1424, NAMI, news, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Parent Advocates to End Insurance Discrimination for Ea, Parents against Eating Disorder Discrimination/Stigma, Paul Wellstone, Personal, Policy & Action, Policy Analysis, Public Policy and Mental Health, Recovery, Social Policies, Society, writing | 2 comments
“It’s about opening up the doors and ending the shadow of discrimination against the mentally ill.”
-Patrick Kennedy
Today’s news is quite uplifting. And the 268-148 vote does speak to the dire need to continue towards enacting mental-health parity and mandating health insurance coverage equal to that of physical illness for mental health and addiction. I think Paul Wellstone would be encouraged to see some progress being made after nearly a decade of back and forth bi-partisan bickering and huge corporate influence , (and currently, to no one’s surprise, big-ph-arm Eli Lilly is really throwing a tantrum!), to strangle this vital legislation.
And there are plenty of critics who are rallying this victory as “mental-health insanity” and clearly looking only at their own financial dunk, but it’s truly time to stop stigmatizing those with mental illness who clearly need the same standard of quality care and treatment that any sane society would not withhold or financially ruin one with personally while working towards full health, healing and recovery.
I, unfortunately live in a state that does not currently have mental-health parity- yet. But I was impressed to read an in depth study done last spring by the La Follette School of Public Affairs in our state, that despite not having all the conclusive data to make absolute recommendations regarding mental-health parity, has incredibly convincing and thought-provoking details putting to bunk some of the primary reasoning against implementing mental-health parity that I would encourage anyone interested in advocating for mental health disparity to read. These studies really can be applied and adapted for further critique and implemented across all states, so that we will eventually see more than thirteen states that have adopted mental-health parity law.
-shanti
Err on the Side of Caution…
January 23, 2008 in Access to ED Care/Treatment, anorexia, Anorexia and Depression, Anorexia Nervosa, Antidepressants and Adolescents with ED's, Behavioral Health, Big Pharma, Community Health Education, Consumer Alert, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder Research, Eating Disorders, ED's and Antidepressants, Empowered Families, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, Evidence-Based Medicine, Family supported ED treatment, FDA study/clinical trials, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Health Care, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Mental Health, Mental Health America, meta-analysis, Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Eating Disorders, New England Journal of Medicine, Pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Publication bias, Research and Recovery, Science, skewed data, SSRI's and ED's | Tags: Anorexia and Depression, Antidepressants and Children/Adolescents, antidepressants and ED's, Behavioral Health, Big Pharma, Consumer Alert, Dr Turner, eating disordered, Eating Disorders, Evidence-Based Medicine, FDA studies/data, Health Care, health&science, Mental Health, MHA, NEJM, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Publication bias, research, Science, selective reporting of clinical trials, skewed data | Leave a comment
… I always say, especially when it comes to ED’s and medication- specifically anitdepressants and children/adolescents.
It’s a call that I personally feel many clinicians make way too early before steady gains in weight, and full nutrition have been sufficiently addressed, and this takes time. As parents, we see a significant change in mood with increased nutrition, as well as the opposite when our children are not eating enough or metabolizing properly during refeeding and recovery.
Of course this will be an intimately personal and individualized decision, and antidepressants, without a doubt, have helped countless numbers of inividuals from seemingly endless and needless suffering.
And you would want to have a physician who would have all the up to date, accurate, and forthright information in helping you make the best decision possible for your child, but after reading Dr Turner’s published report/study as well as the New England Journal of Medicine’s abstract about “selective reporting and clinical trials”, and “efficacy overstated for antidepressants” I’m convinced it’s vital to continue scrutinizing, as well as reseaching the use of antidepressants within the treatment of ED’s; and question why some clincians seem a tad overzealous to prescribe them.
And as some counterbalance, not completely overlooking how antidepressants have assisted many, CEO David Shern of Mental Health America shared a brief response.
When Silence is Deadly
January 16, 2008 in Access to ED Care/Treatment, Adolescent Eating Behaviors, Anorexia and Depression, Anorexia Nervosa, Community Health Education, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorders, ED advocacy, ED Coalition, ED Hope & Recovery, Empowered Families, Family & Friends Network (PFN), Family Based Therapy, Family History of AN, Forensic Psychology, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Health, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Mental Health, Neuroscience and Eating Disorders, news, Parent, Parental Support, Policy & Action, Research and Recovery, Women and ED | Tags: Access to Eating Disorder Care, Anorexia and Depression, ED Awareness, ED Coalition, ED Hope&Recovery, family, Family Supported ED Treatment/Recovery, Forensic Psychology, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Health Policy & Action, Mental Health, Mental Health Parity, National Eating Disorder Coalition, news, Parental Support, Research and Recovery, Women and ED | Leave a comment
Extremely tragic news of a mother who “believed there was no hope” for her daughter who was suffering from anorexia and depression, which ironically she herself began battling around the same age- but seemed to be particularly well hidden from the rest of the family’s awareness– ends in the death of a promising young life.
This heartwrenching loss brings to mind many who struggle in silence and isolation, but what few still come to terms with is that this illness can indeed take lives not fully lived, and at any age.
Families, parents, and sufferers affected by disordered eating and self-starvation need and deserve compassion, effective treatment, and ongoing support. Public awareness, insurance coverage and access to quality care, along with early intervention are still what we all need to keep pushing for so that HOPE becomes reality; and lives can be restored.
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