Show Help can be available to mentally ill EDITOR'S Next a mental Health will be held throughout the Uintah Basin to further the program of the Eastern Utah Mental Health IN CONNECTION with this campaign members of the Health Center Board have been to write Informative concerning mental D. G. has submitted the following By Donald G. Utah There are more than 1 million patients treated each year in the United States in mental hospitals In addition to this there is a substantial number of people who arc treated In clinics and private VERY LITLE IS known as to the proportion of the population which is suffering from mental disorders at any one There have been many estimates made as to the number of mentally ill persons in the but these are very difficult to A fairly recent study has been made which indicated that approximately 10 percent of the urban population is suffering from mental illness in one form or One out of 10 babies I born today will require hospitalization for mental illness during its Astounding as these figures may the subject of mental illness is avoided as much ns possible by all of There is no more reason to be ashamed of having a mental disorder or illness than there is to having a physical Wc must realize that these mentally diseased persons should have the opportunity for treatment just as a patient does who is physically IN ORDER THAT facilities for therapy for the mentally ill be made we must exhibit first of all an awareness that this disease Is present among A an a fellow even one of our own family may at some time require services of a facility for treating the mentally There is no definite line of demarcation between a mentally healthy person and one who is mentally There is one aspect In which a person with mental illness differs from one with a physical In the case of a physical disease such as it Is either present or it is not present There is no such exact differentiation with a mental there is only an exaggeration of qualities which a normal person possesses which can classify an individual as mentally CONTACT IS made many times during our routine life with persons suffering from emotional disturbances which is at this time helping numbers of our emotionally Already the short time the clinic has functioning approximately patients have been treated from the Uintah Basin These patients have been to avail themselves of the services of the through suggestion from school the Department of County their private their own the Juvenile and of their own WE ARE VERY fortunate to have a means of treatment for mental illness in our own area and should become aware of its We must try to do our utmost for its support so that such a service can remain available to our The clinics are held monthly at the hospital in Vernal and the hospital in when come from Salt Lake City to administer to patients in the entire Uintah |