Explain How People With Mental Health Issues Don T Get Enough Care

How people with mental health issues don't get enough care? People with mental health issues don’t get enough care. There are many reasons to this issues. It could be the person being scared or it could be the doctor thinking that it’s not a big enough issue to pursue. Throughout this essay I will talk about why people with mental health issues don’t get enough care. People don’t get enough care with their mental health issues because the person is too scared to get help or the doctor doesn’t think that there’s anything wrong with them. Doctors will put the care aside and go to something that they believe that is more important like a physical injury. Then people don’t go to get help because of their fear, shame in themselves, lack of insight, distrust, and limited awareness of the problem that they may have. People sometimes don’t he trust in their …show more content…
Many major insurance companies only cover a limited amount of outpatient theory sessions. Due to this, mental health patient is not receiving proper care due to high out of pocket costs. Many popular medications are not covered by insurance or the patient has an extremely high copayment. This causes the mental health patient not to receive the proper medication to treat their illness. Due to these two issues with insurance companies people aren’t getting the proper help that they need. Some people feel that they are unavailable. Meaning even if someone is interested in getting mental health treatment, they may not know how to find appropriate professional care. Also, people may feel like there are practical barriers. Another common barrier to mental health care is inability to pay for treatment due to financial hardship or lack of health insurance. Not having reliable transportation, child care issues and appointments for treatment that conflict with work or school schedules can also prevent someone from engaging in