Mental Health and Disability Part Two: Where Society Needs to Catch Up
Late last year, I brought up an issue that was not discussed very much in the disability community, disability and mental health. As I thought about this blog, I remembered a recent email that I got, and it inspired me to revisit the issue. In the email was a story about how colleges are flunking mental health treatment. The article described a young boy, Dan, who had mental health issues and made a wrong choice one night in an attempt to overdose. To summarize, he did not overdose. He was having trouble dealing with a new medication, and once his medicine was adjusted, he was fine. However, his college did not treat him appropriately. His health center referred him to a hospital, which they should have done, but the administration's actions were incorrect. Instead of recognizing a student in trouble, they treated Dan as if he wa...