

Mental Health Care for "Normal" People
One in five Americans will receive a psychiatric diagnosis this year. Why isn't mental health care a bigger priority? “’Normal’ people don’t need mental health care.” That’s what we, as a culture, tell ourselves. Mental health care, after all, is for “those people." The homeless guy we drive past on our daily commute, for example, might be someone who needs mental health care--or someone with an addiction, or maybe a dangerous criminal we hear about on the news. When we h