YOUR STORY CAN HELP STOP SICKNESS AND DEATH OF PEOPLE WITH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES
COVID-19 is dangerous. It’s particularly dangerous to people with psychiatric diagnoses, who are objects of medical discrimination and last to be considered when setting policy.
People living in psychiatric hospitals, group homes, and psychiatric units of nursing homes and rehabilitation centers are at risk. We are seeing the risk in many different ways. Some people are not receiving protective equipment and are denied testing, even when they complain of COVID-19 symptoms. Shared spaces, like bathrooms, are not sanitized frequently enough and social distancing is not practiced. Facilities confine people without providing treatment, activities, or phone/internet access to their support systems, including families and friends.
Share the injustice you or someone you know has experienced so that we can go to the legislature, government agencies, and courts with powerful evidence of these harms. Or give us an example of a setting that shines so that we can convince government that following prevention measures and creating a humane environment in psychiatric settings can be done.
HELP YOURSELF. HELP OTHERS.
You can provide information anonymously. If you want, give us your contact information so that we can follow up with you, your information will not be shared without your consent.
Please take this brief survey to stop needless COVID-19 illness and death in psychiatric settings.
We also know that people are losing trusted mental health providers because their insurance changed with job loss or their provider fell ill or left their current insurer’s network. Some limited network plans just don’t have enough providers to allow people to find one appropriate for their concerns. Tell us if your insurer denied your request for out-of-network coverage.
PLEASE BE A PART OF CHANGING HOW PEOPLE WITH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES ARE TREATED.