And until there is that same urgency towards enforcing, and until there is that same money backing up our words that these are really equal illnesses, we are really still in denial as a Nation.
Emphasizing the need for urgency and funding in mental health treatment equality.
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Both APAs, my fellow panelist Patrick Kennedy, and the unified mental health and substance use disorder community championed the parity law in 2008, but it has failed to end discriminatory health insurance practices.
We keep these illnesses secret. And these illnesses being secret are the reason why they are exacerbated.
Denial is the big issue here. And we all know growing up in families where there is alcoholism and addiction or mental illness that we don't like to talk about these things.
We have really just talked the talk, we have never walked the walk on including mental health and addiction treatment.