"Debt Depression"
Posted by:
Shelley Schreiner
Date: 8/5/2008 4:33 pm
Phil Gramm might have called it a mental recession. But mental health professionals are talking about a very real "debt depression."
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports on a "rising tide of negative mental health consequences . . . among those struggling with job loss, home foreclosure, rising food and gas prices, and declining wages." A few people, on the brink of losing their homes, have even committed suicide.
To top it all off, of course, millions can't afford basic health care, much less mental health care.
There's no simple cure for depression, just as there's no simple cure for the mess we find in our economy.
We do know that finding a way to provide health care for all and shift our country's energy dependence from oil to renewable power will help revitalize our economy. To help build the grassroots momentum we need for these changes, check out our Invest in US campaign.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports on a "rising tide of negative mental health consequences . . . among those struggling with job loss, home foreclosure, rising food and gas prices, and declining wages." A few people, on the brink of losing their homes, have even committed suicide.
To top it all off, of course, millions can't afford basic health care, much less mental health care.
There's no simple cure for depression, just as there's no simple cure for the mess we find in our economy.
We do know that finding a way to provide health care for all and shift our country's energy dependence from oil to renewable power will help revitalize our economy. To help build the grassroots momentum we need for these changes, check out our Invest in US campaign.
