Mental Health

Community Mental Health May Collapse

John Ege
6 min readAug 17, 2021

Society in general tends to be reactive, not proactive in most things. Reactive is the least effective modality for approaching community mental health care. It puts a burden on law enforcement, for one. The burden on society is more than medical expenses and jail expenses, but can result in the loss of life, whether that is street violence, school violence, or the accidental death of bystanders, such as what happened when a person attempted suicide off a bridge, went through a windshield and killed the truck driver. Community mental health is…

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John Ege

LPC-S, Assistent State Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.