Patrick J. Kennedy: “Let's--it's all political will, Senator. That's the only thing that's missing.”

it is shocking. Literally as shocking as it is that we don't address mental health in our healthcare system is that we don't address mental health in our education system.

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.

I want to thank the Biden Administration. They’ve put teeth into the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

the bottom line is, when I go into the ER, if I am going in with COVID or something else and they don't understand about my underlying psychiatric issues, or in the case of addiction they do not know that I am someone who suffered from the…