palms are sweaty knees weak arms are
heavy WebMD
cancer how many by show of hands have
googled a symptom that you had at some
point of time thinking you had that
terrible deceased maybe yeah that’s what
the human mind does goes to the extreme
when given poor information poor
information leads to poor guidance now
this is particularly important in the
field of mental health as forty two
point five million adults suffer from
mental illness every year that’s one out
of every six in these rows right here in
the middle two of you in each row
struggle with the mental illness do we
know who you are now for patients
caretakers and loved ones being
knowledgeable is key while actor of
renders a sense of being powerless
no matter the disease the age the
ethnicity the situation that’s why I say
that good information is the start of
good care I’m going to talk about three
things problem situation and solution
and I start with the situation imagine
that you are a six year old child going
into foster care now the average foster
child goes into twelve homes during
their time in foster care many of them
have been traumatized and sometimes the
trauma continues mental health
information is lost under prioritize or
unidentified that is because there is so
many needs of the child to assess and
only one overworked social worker to
handle it all I was a guardian ad litem
during my time in graduate school a
guardian ad litem is a court-appointed
Guardian basically the voice of the
child parents the system
they all have a representative you’re
the voice of the child
now I had a heads up on finding
information for my children because I
studied clinical psychology but what
about the many Guardians that do not or
how about the million of dementia
caretakers or loved ones who care for
patients with depression anxiety bipolar
disorder this is why I say that good
information is the sort of good care
problems well one problem is that mental
health is stigmatized we still struggle
to validate a disorder that we cannot
necessarily see a physical manifestation
of what we cannot see what we cannot
touch we assign a lower status to than
let’s say a broken arm
now I googled broken arm and I got 619
million hits or links if you will first
link I clicked on provided me with
extensive information about broken arms
and it also referred me to a specialist
in my immediate area to treat my broken
arm
I googled bipolar disorder I received
12% of those links I clicked on the
first link second link third link and
there was some general information about
bipolar disorder tucked neatly in
between pharmaceutical advertisements in
addition to that there was no links that
provided me with any type of referral to
specialists in my immediate area now
lack of information is not just due to
stigmatization it’s also due to poor
mental health advocacy for example I bet
you all know the difference between an
internist and a cardiologist but how
many of you know a difference between a
clinical psychologist and a clinical
neuropsychologist one common issue that
I see as a doctor is that the patient
has been treated by the wrong discipline
and needing additional care second
opinion the referral chain can be quite
long
both financially and emotionally and
just imagine having a vasectomy in your
another problem is technology’s just not
there for mental health the way it is
for physical health for example certain
types of technology like portal
technology your electronic medical
records aid both physicians and
clinicians however other types of
technology like real-time locating
servicing or quality reliable
information lack in mental health if you
were to find a support group try to find
a support group for your sister who
struggles with phobia or maybe your son
had a concussion and you need to find a
concussion clinic that is run actually
run by a neurologist or her
neuropsychologist where would you go
who would you turn to now some of you
may say well that’s really the doctors
job to provide me that misinformation
and refer me to where I need to go and I
agree but most doctors are not all
doctors are created equal that’s why I
say the good information is the start of
good care so what’s the solution
well we need to demand quality
information and with quality information
I mean information that is written by
experts in the mental health field you
may not know that when you google the
disorder the most of the web search
engines websites the information is
written by medical journalists or non
mental health experts that’s why I say
that good information is to start of
good care my call to action is that make
that good information accessible to
everyone because for two 2.5 million
adults and their loved ones depend on it
thank you
[Applause] [Music]
heavy WebMD
cancer how many by show of hands have
googled a symptom that you had at some
point of time thinking you had that
terrible deceased maybe yeah that’s what
the human mind does goes to the extreme
when given poor information poor
information leads to poor guidance now
this is particularly important in the
field of mental health as forty two
point five million adults suffer from
mental illness every year that’s one out
of every six in these rows right here in
the middle two of you in each row
struggle with the mental illness do we
know who you are now for patients
caretakers and loved ones being
knowledgeable is key while actor of
renders a sense of being powerless
no matter the disease the age the
ethnicity the situation that’s why I say
that good information is the start of
good care I’m going to talk about three
things problem situation and solution
and I start with the situation imagine
that you are a six year old child going
into foster care now the average foster
child goes into twelve homes during
their time in foster care many of them
have been traumatized and sometimes the
trauma continues mental health
information is lost under prioritize or
unidentified that is because there is so
many needs of the child to assess and
only one overworked social worker to
handle it all I was a guardian ad litem
during my time in graduate school a
guardian ad litem is a court-appointed
Guardian basically the voice of the
child parents the system
they all have a representative you’re
the voice of the child
now I had a heads up on finding
information for my children because I
studied clinical psychology but what
about the many Guardians that do not or
how about the million of dementia
caretakers or loved ones who care for
patients with depression anxiety bipolar
disorder this is why I say that good
information is the sort of good care
problems well one problem is that mental
health is stigmatized we still struggle
to validate a disorder that we cannot
necessarily see a physical manifestation
of what we cannot see what we cannot
touch we assign a lower status to than
let’s say a broken arm
now I googled broken arm and I got 619
million hits or links if you will first
link I clicked on provided me with
extensive information about broken arms
and it also referred me to a specialist
in my immediate area to treat my broken
arm
I googled bipolar disorder I received
12% of those links I clicked on the
first link second link third link and
there was some general information about
bipolar disorder tucked neatly in
between pharmaceutical advertisements in
addition to that there was no links that
provided me with any type of referral to
specialists in my immediate area now
lack of information is not just due to
stigmatization it’s also due to poor
mental health advocacy for example I bet
you all know the difference between an
internist and a cardiologist but how
many of you know a difference between a
clinical psychologist and a clinical
neuropsychologist one common issue that
I see as a doctor is that the patient
has been treated by the wrong discipline
and needing additional care second
opinion the referral chain can be quite
long
both financially and emotionally and
just imagine having a vasectomy in your
another problem is technology’s just not
there for mental health the way it is
for physical health for example certain
types of technology like portal
technology your electronic medical
records aid both physicians and
clinicians however other types of
technology like real-time locating
servicing or quality reliable
information lack in mental health if you
were to find a support group try to find
a support group for your sister who
struggles with phobia or maybe your son
had a concussion and you need to find a
concussion clinic that is run actually
run by a neurologist or her
neuropsychologist where would you go
who would you turn to now some of you
may say well that’s really the doctors
job to provide me that misinformation
and refer me to where I need to go and I
agree but most doctors are not all
doctors are created equal that’s why I
say the good information is the start of
good care so what’s the solution
well we need to demand quality
information and with quality information
I mean information that is written by
experts in the mental health field you
may not know that when you google the
disorder the most of the web search
engines websites the information is
written by medical journalists or non
mental health experts that’s why I say
that good information is to start of
good care my call to action is that make
that good information accessible to
everyone because for two 2.5 million
adults and their loved ones depend on it
thank you
[Applause] [Music]
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