{"id":30488,"date":"2017-05-07T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=30488"},"modified":"2017-05-07T19:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T23:05:27","slug":"listen-up-when-it-comes-to-supporting-people-with-mental-health-issues-we-dont-always-do-our-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/listen-up-when-it-comes-to-supporting-people-with-mental-health-issues-we-dont-always-do-our-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up! When it comes to supporting people with mental health issues we don&#8217;t always do our best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5890\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5890\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh Mackenzie<br \/>Huntsville Doppler<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Sun Doesn\u2019t Always Shine &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today is the kind of day where a person wants to crawl back into bed and pull the covers over their head. It is dark and gloomy outside for yet another day and we have snow! On May 7<sup>th<\/sup>, we have snow in Huntsville!<\/p>\n<p>For most of us, the sun will shine again tomorrow, or the day after and all will be well and happy again. But in my present mood, I am thinking of those for whom the sun seldom shines. Mental illness is something that few people want to talk about and yet it is an issue we have all encountered at one time or another, in ourselves or in people we care about.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a stigma to it. If one has serious heart disease or cancer, or a stroke, we have nothing but empathy. We stand by our friends or family. We offer help. We offer encouragement. We tell them they can beat it and we stick with them through thick and thin. With mental illness, I think we often run. We don\u2019t know how to face it and we don\u2019t know how to fix it. So, we run.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>It seems to me, that our health system in Canada focuses much more on physical illness than it does on mental illness and yet are they not equally serious? Is postpartum depression or bipolar disorder less important or less debilitating than cancer or a stroke? I would be interested to know the difference in research funds that are dedicated to physical illnesses rather than mental disease. My guess is that it is a wide gulf.<\/p>\n<p>I do know that in the current debate about health care in Muskoka; how many hospitals we should have, where they should be and so on, there has been little discussion about mental health. Yes, mental health folks are at the table, but as another agency, not as a full partner in holistic health care.<\/p>\n<p>In many instances, mental illness manifests itself in poor behaviour. As a society, we don\u2019t like that. When it happens, we tend to put the blame on the individual and not the disease. We think they should suck it up and we believe them to be responsible for their own bad behaviour.  We believe they should control their own addictions. It all sounds so sensible but it simply isn\u2019t always that straight forward. It would not surprise me if we had more people with mental illness in our jails than we do in our hospitals. There is something just not right about that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\"><p>Over the years, I have encountered a number of people who, in one way or another, have experienced mental illness. As I look back, I feel that in many instances I have let them down; that I did not try hard enough. I am not proud of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We need to be better educated about mental illness and we need to be less afraid of it and we need to talk more about it. When we have discussions about the delivery of health care, mental illness should be a significant part of those deliberations. It is not a stigma. It is a disease and it should be treated as such.<\/p>\n<p>Read more opinion pieces <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/category\/commentary\/\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free, twice-weekly newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u>.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun Doesn\u2019t Always Shine &#8230; Today is the kind of day where a person wants to crawl back into bed and pull the covers over their head. 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