
#352 - How to Help Someone Get Help
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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The Barriers to Getting Help for Mental Health Issues
Mental health issues change the way that people think and can in themselves be a barrier for people getting help. For example, if somebody is profoundly depressed, it feels hopeless. They don't feel like they can act on their own behalf. People who have really serious anxiety will be terrified of talking to somebody because they're going to throw me in the loony bin or whatever catastrophic ideas there are. And people with active substance use disorders again are so attached to their substance of choice that it becomes that getting help is a barrier.
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