The most profound change in mental health treatment is upon us. This major step forward in treating mental illness is on par with laws that challenged racial discrimination against the African American community in the 1950s, so says the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Carol Bernstein.
It will allow more people to get treatment, provide better treatment, and go a long way toward eliminating stigma so prevalent in this area of medicine.
Yet, you certainly wouldn’t know we’re on the precipice of such fundamental change.