Each year 7 million of us experience mental illness. Many can not help.
Larry Macdougal/CPOn 29 March hosts Maclean's "health care in Canada: time to rebuild Medicare," a discussion Town Hall Winspear Centre in Edmonton. The conversation on health care, held in conjunction with the Canadian Medical Association and transfer of CPAC, continue in the coming months in MacLean and town halls in Vancouver and Ottawa.
Mental illness, and what passes for Canadian mental health policy, as the "orphan of health care", and this is true. It's called also an invisible illness was, but this is not really the case. Mentally ill people have many faces. You are our emergency wards in our schools, our houses. You are in our prisons in our cemeteries; You are on our Olympic team.
They are people with the name. Jack Windeler, began a Queen University students of great promise, to miss classes, skip assignments, withdraw from friends. To 27 March, a year ago, he killed himself in his residence rooms. He was 18. Bobby White worm, a deeply troubled 24-year-old Aboriginal woman from Saskatchewan, spent about three years locked in solitary confinement in a prison b.c.., include the bricks of their cell. Speed skater and cyclist of Clara Hughes overcame to compete a troubled adolescence for Canada in the Olympic Games in 1996. Then she fell into a deep depression, slave away "by quicksand and hopelessness." She went for help. They fought back to one of the greatest athletes in Canada, and the nature of the model, the stereotypes and scars mental illness can shake environment.
This then is the condition of the mental health policy in Canada: scattered flashes of brilliance in quicksand, hopelessness, and waste. Canada is the only country of the G7 without national mental health strategy, says Louise Bradley, President of the Calgary-based mental health Commission of Canada, a four-year old agency tasked to finally a coherent approach to the question design. She accused the shame around mental health problems for the lower priority and reduced financing granted treatment of psychiatric disorders. Bradley, a nurse and former front line mental health worker, sees the stigma in the public, but also in health care workers and people with mental illnesses. It is tragic, because hardly anyone by the problem is not affected, she says. When people discover their job, they have more stories. "Every time when it in silent sounds begins,", she says. "And yet here we are wrapped with embarrassment and anxiety in 2011 with him above."
The need is obvious. The annual costs for the economy in lost productivity was $51 billion in a report last year researchers at the Center for searches and mental health (CAMH). Some seven million Canadians experience a mental illness this year, including depression, substance abuse and psychotic episodes. Many go undiagnosed, some suffer from in the background, others treat with drugs or alcohol itself. You overpower family doctors or jam of emergency wards unsuitable to meet their needs. You are waiting for the advice.
"Access to mental health services is overall pretty bad," says Steve Lurie, Executive Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association. "In Ontario get basically one in three adults access." If you are a child, it is even worse. "It is one of six is", he says. "We would not accept that for cancer." "We would not accept, that have for heart [disease] or a broken leg." Policy says psychiatric far more likely for wealthy adults, Dr. Michael Rachlis, Toronto-based health consultant. "Much is serious work on children and young people" says he, "and it tends to be pay as well as sit in your Office and see people who have less serious problems."
Many of the necessary public services be delivered piecemeal or they fall outside of Medicare. Sarah cannon of St. Catharines, Ontario, executive Director of parents for the mental health of children, lost her husband suicide eight years ago. He suffered from bipolar disorder. Their daughter Emily received a similar diagnosis at the age of five years. Treatment search for quality was a struggle. Emily's teacher used workers from the community to offered various treatment strategies from those of their mental health. "[It is] a lack of consistency,", she says "lack of they speak to each other." Sometimes was Cannon spend as much as $800 per month on drugs by Ontario's health plan covered. Emily, now 14, is effective with mood stabilizers, in combination with advice and occupational therapy treated. "I want a system that is integrated, communicated and coordinated,"Cannon says", that is it the same way would be financed a system that handled finance a child with physical health problems."
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