March 16th, Dr. Phil devoted his entire program to the parents of the young man with PTSD and paranoid schizophrenia who killed two men when he had a psychotic break. The award winning film "American Sniper" was about the life of one of the men who was murdered. Dr. Phil interviewed both parents of the young man with paranoid schizophrenia/PTSD who murdered two men. I was shocked to learn both a private psychiatric hospital refused to treat the paranoid schizophrenic man and also the Veterans Administration Psychiatric Hospital denied inpatient mental health hospitalization stating "He does not meet the criteria for inpatient hospitalization". The young man only received slap-dash, cursory mental health treatment and was shortly discharged onto the street with absolutely no treatment plan, no medication, no after-care plan and no "Wrap Around" services by Veterans Administration Psychiatric Hospital staff and the private psych hospital. The result of this substandard, barbaric non-delivery of mental health services resulted in the paranoid schizophrenic man getting a gun and murdering two men. One of those men was the gentleman's whose life is highlighted in the award winning film "American Sniper".
When will our government FINALLY provide comprehensive mental health treatment? What will it take? How many lives need to be ruined by not receiving holistic, patient-centric mental health services?
One big problem is psych medications are prescribed without on-going bloodwork draws and mental health patients are badly medicated, over-medicated and not given ongoing psychotherapy or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I am definitely NOT anti-medication - but there seems to be a tendency for clinicians just to bombard patients with medication - when the medication does not work - then instead of the clinician taking responsibility to prescribe the CORRECT medication - the patient gets blamed for "not being compliant" or "treatment resistant".
Art therapy, dance therapy, music therapy, Nutritional Neurochemistry and Complimentary/Integrative Medicine combined with a nutrition based approach - completely eliminating junk food, processed food, fast food (containing high levels of neurotoxins) can work wonders for consumers of mental health services.
Advocate for Improved Mental Health Programs
March 16th, Dr. Phil devoted his entire program to the parents of the young man with PTSD and paranoid schizophrenia who killed two men when he had a psychotic break. The award winning film "American Sniper" was about the life of one of the men who was murdered. Dr. Phil interviewed both parents of the young man with paranoid schizophrenia/PTSD who murdered two men. I was shocked to learn both a private psychiatric hospital refused to treat the paranoid schizophrenic man and also the Veterans Administration Psychiatric Hospital denied inpatient mental health hospitalization stating "He does not meet the criteria for inpatient hospitalization". The young man only received slap-dash, cursory mental health treatment and was shortly discharged onto the street with absolutely no treatment plan, no medication, no after-care plan and no "Wrap Around" services by Veterans Administration Psychiatric Hospital staff and the private psych hospital. The result of this substandard, barbaric non-delivery of mental health services resulted in the paranoid schizophrenic man getting a gun and murdering two men. One of those men was the gentleman's whose life is highlighted in the award winning film "American Sniper".
When will our government FINALLY provide comprehensive mental health treatment? What will it take? How many lives need to be ruined by not receiving holistic, patient-centric mental health services?
One big problem is psych medications are prescribed without on-going bloodwork draws and mental health patients are badly medicated, over-medicated and not given ongoing psychotherapy or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. I am definitely NOT anti-medication - but there seems to be a tendency for clinicians just to bombard patients with medication - when the medication does not work - then instead of the clinician taking responsibility to prescribe the CORRECT medication - the patient gets blamed for "not being compliant" or "treatment resistant".
Art therapy, dance therapy, music therapy, Nutritional Neurochemistry and Complimentary/Integrative Medicine combined with a nutrition based approach - completely eliminating junk food, processed food, fast food (containing high levels of neurotoxins) can work wonders for consumers of mental health services.