I know you think you have it all figured out, but you don't. I will guarantee, that if you had a child that needed help, you would shut your mouth in a hell fire hurry.
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Women are twice as likely to become depressed as men. However, scientists do not know the reason for this difference. Psychological factors also contribute to a person's vulnerability to depression.Patients treated with NeuroStar TMS therapy experienced a significant improvement in symptoms, from baseline, as early as Week Two.

It is unfortunate that children like Nana and others are not receiving services they need and are eligible. But we cannot blame everything on the economy but also on greedy ignorant providers who went into the business only for money and to explore loop holes in the system. Some of the blame also must to the LMEs who appeared not to know what they are doing. Several complains from workers, clients and their families hahve been made to LMEs with supporting documents but nothing has been done. The greedy providers are still provinding services. Soem providers have even gone to the extent of selling employees personnel files to other providers to obtain endorsements without the employees' consent, and not working for the recepient agancies. Such reports have been made to some LMEs. LMEs sent investigators to the agencies to retrieve the file only to write in the report that no crime was committed. Some providers have employed staff only to write service notes without providing the services and forging signatures of former employees, just to obtain payments from the State and Mmedicaid. Reports have been made to some of the LMEs and nothing was done. Some clients have been enrolled by five-ten agencies for the same services while each bill on the same clients. Audit system is a joke. To tell a provider I am coming to audit you next months, giving the provider a list of files to be audited will yield nothing. Providers use the time to fix the listed files. The problem is not the listed files but the unlisted files. Cinsidering all these, money is being thrown into a gutter. It is awkward that people with limited knowledge about mental health are allowed to open private agencies when they are not accountable to any Professional body or bodies.I do not think a private clinic or hospital should be opened by non-doctor. This is the problem with mental health.

I know you think you have it all figured out, but you don't. I will guarantee, that if you had a child that needed help, you would shut your mouth in a hell fire hurry.

Just where does an adult (with Down's Syndrome) live and eat if he/she has no family? How are the mentally retarded supposed to live if they have no family or even if they do, they do not have the resources? What if you are the caregiver of such a person and there are no programs to help them? I wonder what you would do? If you haven't seen first hand the complications, indignities, and needs some of these people must contend with consider yourself lucky or maybe not. Lack of compassion can come home to roost.

to the fact of helping people's children who have something wrong with them.If my kid had of fallen behind in school,guess what? I had to pay for a tutor and not the taxpayers! IT'S YOUR CHILD,and WE as a whole should not have to be responsible for developing your child.Many of these so called services that are SO NEEDED are services like taking the child out to a movie,a park,etc.,etc,usually by family members who get paid by taxpayers!Substance abuse services should totally be cut from the budget and make it mandatory that the person who needs such services pay out of the pockets they are wearing.I am tired of people making problems for themselves yet others have to pay the price!I just don't get it!Compassion,yes I have a little of it, but not in this case.It is not needed!You have them,you take care of WHATEVER needs they require and not expect others to do it for you!!!!

Please understand - each of us WILL pay (now or later) to help those with needs. Why not do it before things deteriorate so much and it costs more? Mental health is just as important as physical health. North Carolina legislature can waste money on so many things instead of meeting the needs of those with mental health issues. I am usually fiscally conservative. However, we do need to do a better job helping those with disabilities. God is watching.

Yes the economy is suffering, a TRILLION dollar in the whole administration, loss of blue collar jobs and people living off of Unemployment as a way of life versus a bridge from unemployment to employment as it is intended to be. I keep remembering a former coworker forewarning the up and coming Local Mental Health Entity (LME) of the projected abuse of Medicaid from people seeking Community Support Workers to substitute a missing parent as a mentor. The majority of providers are sub par on the professionalism that once was displayed by the Pitt County Mental Health Center, that was accessible to our community through local and satellite programs, offering therapy and medications, not a babysitter. Yes we are going through times no lie about that but has the corruption of the provider’s greed is a factor of this equation?