May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In honor of that, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (“AFSP”) is encouraging #MentalHealth4All.The hashtag is behind AFSP’s campaign that seeks to spread this important message:No One’s Mental Health Is Fully Supported UntilEveryone’s Mental Health Is Fully Supported.Get Involved: There are several ways for you and your loved ones […]
Why is there no stigma when it comes to discussing our genetically inherited conditions like thyroid disorders or high blood pressure, but when it comes to mental illness there is a negative connotation that causes us shame or embarrassment?Depression, bi-polar disorder, and eating disorders are no different than the BRCA gene you inherited from your […]
The internet provides patients with the resources to locate healthcare providers anywhere in the world. But whether your health insurance pays benefits for treatment with a health care provider anywhere in the world is another issue. Patients are often unhappily surprised when they discover that their health insurance policy limits them to healthcare only within […]
Recovery, Like Life, is a Process and a JourneyI am reminded on a daily basis what an eating disorder can do to a person. I remember being very young and naive and thinking nothing will ever happen, that my ED couldn’t hurt me. I was wrong. I am blessed for having people who believed in […]
In Jessica U. v. Health Care Service Corp., No. CV 18-05-H-CCL, 2020 WL 6504437 (D. Mont. Nov. 5, 2020), the court considered the residential treatment of Jessica, a 16-year-old with a long history of medical and mental health conditions. Jessica had a complicated history of gastric distress and illness which preceded her residential treatment by […]
Kantor & Kantor, LLP achieved another victory in a mental health benefits case from the District of Utah, Rachel S. v. Life and Health Benefits Plan of American Red Cross, No. 2:14-CV-778, 2020 WL 6204402 (D. Utah Oct. 22, 2020). In Rachel S., the plaintiff seeks benefits for residential treatment denied by Cigna, the Plan’s […]
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) issued a Press Release to announce the incredible news that from this past weekend and we are thrilled to share it here!“On Saturday, October 17, after passing unanimously out of Congress, the President of the United States signed the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act (S.2661) into law. This […]
Saturday, October 10, 2020, was World Mental Health Day. I should have had this blog post turned in by then. But every time I started to write, something stymied my “oomph.” I wasn’t down, I wasn’t blue, I just didn’t have the ‘get-up-and-go’ in my fingers to type out anything of note. The weather yesterday […]
Mental illness is not, in any way, shape, or form, a choice.It has, however, always been my opinion that it bestows upon the sufferer two choices: to be felled at the knees or to become resilient enough to withstand the storm. Beyond all reasonable expectation and explanation, I chose resilience. My name is Sascha, and this […]
Mental illness is everywhere.It lives in the acquaintances you know from college, the friends you talk to on your day-to-day, and is as in insidious as your closest loved ones. Not everyone with mental illness displays the signs you see on television or even confides to you what they are feeling.Mental illness can range from […]
