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May is Mental Health Month. By urging my public officials to prioritize suicide prevention, mental health, and crisis care, I am hoping to influence collective change to support #MentalHealth4All. Right now, individuals in crisis are able to call 1-800-2738255 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress and those that care for them. Soon, it will be much easier to remember how to reach the Lifeline as the number will be changing to '988' nationwide by July 2022.

Knowing this, it is critically important that states pass legislation NOW to reliably fund 988 and their state's crisis response system, just as we fund 911 and emergency services – through small fees on our phone bills. Reliable funding will help to ensure all 988 callers can reach a counselor in their own state who is familiar with and can connect them with local resources. Culturally competent support and local connections can better help all callers through their crisis and in their recovery. As a crisis counselor and as a medical health professional I see and talk to many individuals who are suffering from suicidal thoughts, all they need is someone who can hear them out. Join me this month in urging your public officials to fund 988. We all play a role in changing the culture around mental health. Together, we can ensure #MentalHealth4All.

[ Editor’s Note: I have known more than a few folks in my lifetime who have battled mental illness, so I’m more than happy to help promote this effort.

This has been a rough year for everyone but the isolation and uncertainty undoubtedly had an impact on those suffering from depression, bipolar disorder

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parade? Biden says the border is 'closed' while we see large groups of migrants crossing the Rio Grande? The massive amount of immigrants housed at the border is not a 'crisis'? Has Biden or Harris visited the border?

We are 'negotiating' with Antifa, BLM and protesters destroying, burning, looting cities, attacking police and others instead of enforcing the rule of law? No law, no punishment, no justice, no peace! Worker shortage?

Who is going to go to work when they can sit at home and make more money than working? To me the 'woke' agenda seems to promotes bias, racism, condemns anyone with different opinions, beliefs or that is not accepting of LGBTQ. America is still a free society, 'supposedly' or is it? [ Editor’s Note: This jumped from topic to topic so fast, I think I got ocular whiplash reading it.

I’m going to go ahead and admit I thought you were joking about the cannabis parade, so I had to Google it. And guess what? Not only is it a real thing, but it’s also not even a new thing. In fact, it’s a few months older than I am, with the first official Cannabis Parade & New York Smoke- In being held in May 5, 1973, which is “ May Day,” only it was renamed “ J- Day,” as in “ j for joint”… anyway, all that other stuff you mentioned is probably important

*** Parents wake up to the indoctrination of their children through social media, television, schools, colleges and even some churches.

We can not accept what God condemns. Remember Satan is the great deceiver causing people to believer lies instead of truth just like he did Adam and Eve.

Is anyone concerned anymore about where we and our children and families are going to spend eternity?

[ Editor’s Note: You’re not gonna like this answer, but it would seem that, no, fewer folks than ever are professed and practicing Christians, at least as far as percentage of the population goes, with just 37% of Americans identifying themselves as Evangelical Christians in 2020, with just an additional 9% as some “ other” type of Christian. That’s still less than half of the U. S. As a Christian, I do not have an easy answer for you as to how to reverse that trend. I will offer this quote, however, as a possible explanation, often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: “ I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”]

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