Patrick J. Kennedy: “What we're trying to do is make the spirit of parity a practical reality.”

We need help from Congress to remove prejudice and discrimination and treat it just like all other forms of prejudice and discrimination.

This is why it is time to pass the Telemental Health Expansion Act which I introduced, as I mentioned, with Congresswoman Doris Matsui.

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.

the process to seek help should not be a barrier to receiving help.