February 13, 2013
The National Alliance on Mental Health gives Mississippi’s mental-health care an F. The state has taken preliminary steps toward providing more care to people in the community; however, it cut 10 percent from its general fund mental-health budget from 2009 to 2012, and its psychiatric hospitals are filled to capacity. “Services are not available until people reach a point of severe crisis,” NAMI stated. “Then, individuals either become the responsibility of the state hospital system or state correctional system.”
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Jennifer Michaels traces her mental-health problems back to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, when she was 12 years old.
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