The Tragedy of The Lack of Mental Health Care in Rural America

Shirley J. Davis
6 min readOct 25, 2019
Photo by John Westrock on Unsplash

If you are depressed or suicidal in rural America, you are in deep trouble. There are only a few mental health providers in your area and those few are less qualified and may not be helpful to you at all.

With suicide on the rise among farmers and people living in rural communities, something must happen to not only hire therapists and psychiatrists but to…

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Shirley J. Davis

I am an author/speaker/grant writer in the U.S. My passion is authoring information about mental health disorders, especially dissociative identity disorder..