The number of people struggling with mental health issues has been a topic of increasingly keen interest since COVID has come on the scene.
It’s a sad fact that about half of the people who struggle with mental illness either delay getting the help they need, or don’t seek it out at all because of the complication of the stigma, according to the American Psychiatric Association.
Many people fear losing their job and how they will be treated by others if their struggle becomes known.
In fact, many people who struggle with mental illness feel that the “shame, ostracism and marginalization” that come with the stigma are worse than the actual condition, according to The Lancet.
In addition to the stigma, many people feel that there is a mental health crisis in the United States today.
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In a survey conducted by CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation, about 90 percent of Americans feel that there is not only a mental health crisis being experienced by adults, but also teens and children.
Of the people surveyed, about half of those said that they had a family member who was struggling so intensely with mental health challenges that their struggling family member was engaged in self-harming behaviors.
This year has brought about an increase in the number of people who have decided to reach out for help in regard to mental health challenges.
The primary reason for this is because of how COVID exacerbated the stress and personal issues with which people were already struggling.
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In a poll conducted by Kintsugi Hope and Christian think tank Theos, it was discovered that only 35 percent of Christians who struggle with mental health issues feel supported by their church.
Perhaps the reason for that is that 91 percent of church leaders do not have any training with regard to mental health.
That being said, perhaps it shouldn’t be any great surprise that 56 percent of those interviewed in the poll said…
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