Bay Area mental health experts are sharing ways we might process the news of the mass shooting at Texas elementary school., Texas ranked last out of all 50 states and the District of Columbia for overall access to mental healthcare. Records show Texas Governor Greg Abbott cut $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs.
However, Dr. Trivedi said it's important to remember"we often try to conflate these mass shootings with a mental illness and there's no mental illness around being a mass murderer or mass shooter. That is not a recognized psychiatric condition, but I do think there's a lot of people in distress that seek weapons."
The areas of the country with the highest rate of gun dealers versus mental health providers include Iowa, which has two counties in the top five, Texas, Missouri and Indiana. Warren County in Iowa is at the top of the list and has 23 times more gun dealers than mental health providers. That's not the case in California -- the state is one of seven across the country where every county has more mental health providers than gun dealers. San Francisco County has the highest rate of mental health providers compared to gun dealers across the nation. There's only one gun dealer in the county compared to 4,110 mental health providers.
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So 30 % of the counties do? Are these populated counties? Of the 70%, is there a need for more Mental Health Providers? So many problems with this headline
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