Rachel Streiff
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And these are truly disabling, devastating, and dangerous sometimes.
Yeah.
So the first thing I want to address the S word stigma.
I don't allow that word in Arizona mad mom circles.
That has been a giant red herring.
That is not the problem.
Our kids cannot get treatment.
Our kids cannot get care.
Access to competent psychiatry is the problem.
It's not a lack of stigma, okay?
It's not a stigma problem.
It's a medical problem.
So I don't use that word.
And you're right.
It's perception.
And it probably starts with education, even middle school and high school.
That's probably where it's going to start.
It's also going to require educating people who work in both law enforcement and public defenders and our criminal justice staff.
It's really going to start with education.
We need to bring back the truth, not a watered down version that everybody has a mental illness because I had a bad day at work today.