Tag: IMD Exclusion

We Need Less Mental Health Awareness & More Serious Mental Illness Action

Featured ~ Rev. Tamara Dalrymple ~ 9 Comments

On December 6, 2017 my family made a fateful decision to call 911 and seek help for my son. He had become suicidal and was hurting himself. At the time, he had spiraled into a state of psychosis, something our family had never experienced before. He had decompensated into a false reality of conspiracy theories, … Continue reading We Need Less Mental Health Awareness & More Serious Mental Illness Action

The Institutes of Mental Disease (IMD) Exclusion Is Absolutely Discriminatory

~ Rev. Tamara Dalrymple ~ 3 Comments

In a recent letter to all of my state representatives I have expressed my outrage over the outdated and absolutely discriminatory exclusion in the Medicaid/Medicare system that has REFUSED to properly treat those with severe psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar 1 for over 50 years. New legislation has been introduced to gently ease the … Continue reading The Institutes of Mental Disease (IMD) Exclusion Is Absolutely Discriminatory