Here’s the latest from Practicing Mental Illness: What do you do when you can work, and work well, but mental illness increasingly makes it more challenging? Much is written about, and many resources are directed toward, as they should, people whose lives are decimated by mental illness and addiction. Services for lives that are shattered draw much of the public funding. The battles over whether or not more public support should be given to those with mental illness focus on those too ill to work. Society provides for, and sometimes coddles, people challenged by severe mental health challenges. The biggest hurdle to overcome in providing these services is matching those who need help to the help that is available.
Appreciate the advice to seek out employment with employers that provide decent, even any health insurance. Unfortunately, more and more employers do not offer health care- they may limit employees' work hours to just below full-time to avoid the responsibility. And then there are the self-employed, gig workers, restaurant employees, salon employees, etc... They need to pay for their own insurance if they decide to do so. Such policies often have limited mental health coverage, often with high deductibles for the policies that fall within the budget of these folks. These cases require supplementary government intervention to limit economic inequality and support mental and physical health care for all.
Appreciate the advice to seek out employment with employers that provide decent, even any health insurance. Unfortunately, more and more employers do not offer health care- they may limit employees' work hours to just below full-time to avoid the responsibility. And then there are the self-employed, gig workers, restaurant employees, salon employees, etc... They need to pay for their own insurance if they decide to do so. Such policies often have limited mental health coverage, often with high deductibles for the policies that fall within the budget of these folks. These cases require supplementary government intervention to limit economic inequality and support mental and physical health care for all.