@joenegronfl

who said

http://fcir.org/2012/07/26/florida-slips-even-lower-in-mental-health-funding/

“More specifically, state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City, advocated cuts to so-called soft services, which include mental health and drug-addiction programs, because many of these services address what Negon views as “a lack of willpower, a lack of discipline, a lack of character.” Negron was the chair of appropriations for health and human services in the state Senate.”

This attitude has got to change. We cannot have legislators that do not believe in taking care of our most vulnerable people and do not believe in science.

Mental illness knows no parties. It is a bipartisan disease.

Let’s educate our legislators. Let’s make a difference.

Let’s make June “Educate your legislators on mental illness month.”

Society is Judged By How They Treat the Most Vulnerable.

What does this say about us?

http://www2.nami.org/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm?ContentFileID=93487

Mental Illness Is Common

Of Florida’s approximately 18.3 million residents, close to 660,000 adults live with serious mental illness

and about 181,000 children live with serious mental health conditions.

Untreated Mental Illness has Deadly and Costly Consequences

In 2006, 2,440 Floridians died by suicide.

Suicide is almost always the result of untreated or under-

treated mental illness.

Public Mental Health Services

are Inadequate to Meet Needs

•

Florida’s public mental health system

m provides services to only 26 percent of adults who live with

serious mental illnesses in the state.

•

Florida spent just $38 per capita on mental health

agency services in 2006, or $686.6 million

Nationally, an average of 70 percent is spent

on community mental health services and 28 percent on state hospital care.

Criminal Justice Systems Bear a Heavy Burden

•

In 2006, 7,302 children were incarcerated in Florida’s juvenile justice system.

Nationally,

approximately 70 percent of youth in juvenile justice

systems experience mental health disorders, with

20 percent experiencing a

severe

mental health condition.

•

In 2008, approximately 24,600 adults with mental

illnesses were incarcerated in prisons in Florida.

Additionally, an estimated 31 percent of female and 14

percent of male jail inmates nationally live with

serious mental illness.

Many Residents Rely on Public Services for Needed Care

•

Approximately 10.1 percent of Floridians are enrolled in Medicaid.

Housing is Unaffordable for People who rely on SSI or SSDI.

•

The average rent for a studio apartment in Florida is

119 percent of the average Supplemental Security

Income (SSI) payment, making housing unaffordable

for adults living with serious mental illness who rely on SSI.

Here is an article from Science Daily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140605141946.htm

Brain circuit problem likely sets stage for the ‘voices’ that are symptom of schizophrenia

Scientists have identified problems in a connection between brain structures that may predispose individuals to hearing the ‘voices’ that are a common symptom of schizophrenia. Researchers linked the problem to a gene deletion. This leads to changes in brain chemistry that reduce the flow of information between two brain structures involved in processing auditory information.

Here is a video by ROCHE that is a simple explanation on schizophrenia.

The biology of schizophrenia.

Mental Disorders as Brain Disorders: Thomas Insel at TEDxCaltech

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June is educate your legislators in mental illness month. I said so!

@joenegronfl

Brain circuit problem likely sets stage for the ‘voices’ that are symptom of schizophrenia

Mental Disorders as Brain Disorders: Thomas Insel at TEDxCaltech

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Brain circuit problem likely sets stage for the ‘voices’ that are symptom of schizophrenia

Mental Disorders as Brain Disorders: Thomas Insel at TEDxCaltech

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