Peace of Mind

It's not beautiful to have a mental illness.

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This is one of many stories where help and treatment was not given to a patient because of difficult accessibility to mental health care.

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Years later she was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was able to treat it correctly.

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During her stay, she was kept heavily sedated and the discharged without a diagnosis.

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Eventually after Carmen had a severe frightening episode, she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She was hospitalized for a month.

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Due to their culture, her parents didn't place any importance to the pleads from Carmen's coworkers and instead alienated her from them.

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Her co-workers contacted her parents, who migrated from El Salvador to the Bronx in the 80's.

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Carmen's coworkers worried about her episodes took her to the hospital where she was accessed and dismissed without a diagnosis.

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Carmen* was a young hardworking woman in her early twenties when she began showing non sensible and self destructive behavior.

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People need better access to mental health care because leaving a mental illness untreated only makes it worse. 🤔