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Tim Murphy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
285 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

Because that's the attitude amongst people in leadership positions. Nobody cares. Well, we need to care. We need to say this must be done. We have to handle this. So that's why I'm continuing to fight on these things. That's why I'm going to continue to work on these things. That's why I hope we can make things happen.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

That's a great question. You know what the answer is? Not everybody's under the same umbrella, multiple umbrellas. So for example, NAMI, National Alliance for Mental Illness, at one time was really focused on serious mental illness. Now it's all over the place. And when it's too broad and all over the place, it's trying to please so many people that it can't please anybody at all.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

That's a great question. You know what the answer is? Not everybody's under the same umbrella, multiple umbrellas. So for example, NAMI, National Alliance for Mental Illness, at one time was really focused on serious mental illness. Now it's all over the place. And when it's too broad and all over the place, it's trying to please so many people that it can't please anybody at all.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

That's a great question. You know what the answer is? Not everybody's under the same umbrella, multiple umbrellas. So for example, NAMI, National Alliance for Mental Illness, at one time was really focused on serious mental illness. Now it's all over the place. And when it's too broad and all over the place, it's trying to please so many people that it can't please anybody at all.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And it goes where the money is and it goes towards government and companies will give money towards mental illness. It's a great sounding organization by name. They have to have the accountability. Are you making a difference with serious mental illness?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And it goes where the money is and it goes towards government and companies will give money towards mental illness. It's a great sounding organization by name. They have to have the accountability. Are you making a difference with serious mental illness?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And it goes where the money is and it goes towards government and companies will give money towards mental illness. It's a great sounding organization by name. They have to have the accountability. Are you making a difference with serious mental illness?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

So NAMI has this place in terms of information and talking about stigma, but it's not pushing for innovation within and accountability within serious mental illness. Mental Health America, great organization. They work on issues to make sure people with a serious mental illness can get care, but they're opposed to assisted outpatient treatment.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

So NAMI has this place in terms of information and talking about stigma, but it's not pushing for innovation within and accountability within serious mental illness. Mental Health America, great organization. They work on issues to make sure people with a serious mental illness can get care, but they're opposed to assisted outpatient treatment.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

So NAMI has this place in terms of information and talking about stigma, but it's not pushing for innovation within and accountability within serious mental illness. Mental Health America, great organization. They work on issues to make sure people with a serious mental illness can get care, but they're opposed to assisted outpatient treatment.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

I agree with them for those who can with a serve community treatment and help them and guide them along. And those people are cooperative. Awesome. That's a very important pool, but not everybody is the same. And so disability rights organizations say everybody's the same, same diagnosis, same treatment plan. We have to stand up and say, no, that's not right. So SAMHSA needs leadership.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

I agree with them for those who can with a serve community treatment and help them and guide them along. And those people are cooperative. Awesome. That's a very important pool, but not everybody is the same. And so disability rights organizations say everybody's the same, same diagnosis, same treatment plan. We have to stand up and say, no, that's not right. So SAMHSA needs leadership.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

I agree with them for those who can with a serve community treatment and help them and guide them along. And those people are cooperative. Awesome. That's a very important pool, but not everybody is the same. And so disability rights organizations say everybody's the same, same diagnosis, same treatment plan. We have to stand up and say, no, that's not right. So SAMHSA needs leadership.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

The assistant secretary needs to lead and say, I get what you're concerned about, but what you're concerned about does not apply to everyone. Everything else that takes place, when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

The assistant secretary needs to lead and say, I get what you're concerned about, but what you're concerned about does not apply to everyone. Everything else that takes place, when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

The assistant secretary needs to lead and say, I get what you're concerned about, but what you're concerned about does not apply to everyone. Everything else that takes place, when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And I tell people, well, gee, if you have a problem in your house with, I don't know, pick anything, a broken light bulb, you don't send the road crew in to pave your driveway. You know, that's not the same thing. You wouldn't do that. You have to work very refined on that. And in the field of medicine, we don't treat every diagnosis the same.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And I tell people, well, gee, if you have a problem in your house with, I don't know, pick anything, a broken light bulb, you don't send the road crew in to pave your driveway. You know, that's not the same thing. You wouldn't do that. You have to work very refined on that. And in the field of medicine, we don't treat every diagnosis the same.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And I tell people, well, gee, if you have a problem in your house with, I don't know, pick anything, a broken light bulb, you don't send the road crew in to pave your driveway. You know, that's not the same thing. You wouldn't do that. You have to work very refined on that. And in the field of medicine, we don't treat every diagnosis the same.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Tim Murphy's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And with mental illness, we should not treat every diagnosis the same. And the subcategories of diagnosis based upon the symptoms. A lot of what I do now, for example, I work with people with very serious post-traumatic stress disorder.