It's time for the awareness of and treatment for mental illnesses to emerge from the shadows and stigmas that have long prevented real progress from being made. Provide quality, affordable, easy to access mental health care. Allow the doctors treating a mental health patient, rather than the insurers, to decide when treatment should end. Promote and support mental health care and awareness. Start a series of public service announcements related to the understanding of mental illness. We've made enormous strides in bringing women's reproductive cancers out of the shadows of shame and into the mainstream, providing emotional and monetary support to those fighting these illnesses. We've given millions of public and private dollars for cancer research and. Time to do same for mental illness.



