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Old Oct 15, 2011, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by dragonfly2 View Post
And the only way that will happen is to change the nomenclature to something like "brain-based disease". That's the whole basis for mental health insurance parity laws. Even insurers who are required to offer comparable insurance for 'mental disorders' as they do 'physical disorders' only have to do it for those illnesses determined by some doughnut-stuffed committee to be brain-based. The sooner we push to be on the same playing field as things like epilepsy, the sooner we will be given equal care, at least from a financial standpoint. Granted, a rose is still a rose, and it will take people longer to change their perceptions of people with these 'brain-based diseases". But which would you prefer to have in your yard: a pigeon or a rock dove? Same bird, different connotation.
I agree. It is a brain trouble. It's not a personality disorder or flaw. I don't get as many psych appts as I need and yet unlimited when it's my gp and asthma or strep throat etc.
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