NAMI Wants Greater Funding for NIH Studies
October 30th, 2009 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline
The National Alliance on Mental Illness has provided support and advocacy for scores of efforts in the prevention and treatment of mental health concerns, and its counsel is highly respected among many in the mental health professions as well as lawmakers and other officials with an interest in improving quality of life. For this reason, a recent call for greater funding allotted to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research in mental health fields released by NAMI has drawn a great deal of attention. The alliance notes that as health care concerns become increasingly heated and major decisions are prepared for the future of wellness, a greater attention to the development of better treatments is critical.
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9 comments so far
It is an issue to be noted for better progress.
Funds should never be shortened for such programs… there should be a proper channel to route funds by philanthropists to organizations.
Its a shame that most of us blow money while in a mall but do not think twice before saying no to make a donation to a philanthropist organization…organizations striving hard to help the needy and those that cannot afford health services. The government needs to have a better policy to allocate sufficient funds for such purposes, which deserve nothing but the best.
Health is wealth, and it holds good not only for an individual but also for a nation as a whole. The authorities need to understand that the health sector is one wherein any investment made is going to come back with rich dividents… the health of the people of a nation should be the top-priority… even in the times of economic turmoil.
Yes!!
Write to your Congressman today and express your views! Elected officials from the highest office downwards are supposed to be representative of their constituency. Let them know what you expect to happen if they want to be voted in again. You needn’t wait for a vote to take a stand. They cannot represent you properly when you don’t share how you feel. Support the call for an increase in funding.
Take away the money that’s allocated to all those crazy arts projects and give it to NAMI. I am sick of so-called artists that crumple up a sheet of aluminum into a ball, label it “The Placenta of Skullduggery” or some such garbage, put it in a gallery and slap a price tag of $50K on it until a pretentious idiot buys it.
Okay, okay! No one did that. Yet. You get the picture though. Put money into what REALLY matters FIRST.
There. I feel so much better now LOL.
Why oh why is mental health always treated like the poor relation? I will never understand that attitude. What other field of medicine needs to scrabble in the dirt for pennies cap in hand and has had to do so for decades apart from mental health? It’s ridiculous such basic needs remain unmet.
We have left behind the dark days when a mentally ill person was automatically put in an institution for life and never seen again in their neighborhood. Insufficient funding to care for a mental health patient’s needs properly in the community or other facilities is a step backwards towards those days. I feel to keep such facilities lacking in adequate resources is a different form of discrimination against the mentally ill, but discrimination nonetheless.