It’s World Mental Health Day. And this year, US policy changes make treatment, medicines and crisis lines more difficult to reach. The treatment of mental health/mental illness is more at risk than ever. Of course, I am talking about the changes made by the Democratic Administration in the United States. Donald Trump would not know mental health if he was sitting in his arms and began to move, and while this is bad, what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It is even worse because it works actively to harm people with mental illness. For World Mental Health Day, let us return to events about mental health and mental illness to combat changes against science circulating in the United States.
What changed in US mental health policy (2025)
There are many things that Republicans have said and did that they have harmful people with mental illness. Here are just some of the legislative changes that will hurt us.
- Mental Health Equity Rule: Imposition stopped – The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Ministry of Finance have announced that they will not impose new 2024 MHPAEA equivalence rules (who tighten the supervision of insurers) while re -examining them in the midst of industry action – and for 18 months after completion. The weaker enforcement facilitates insurers to maintain non -quantitative limits (eg previous authorization, narrow networks) that limit access to treatment, psychiatric visits and the care of substance use. This means more denials and delays.
- 988 LGBTQ+ Youth Services Removal – The Samhsa Services Services and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) finished the LGBTQ+ LGBTQ+ specialized LGBTQ+ services of 988 in July 2025. The FY2026 budget proposal eliminates this line of funding. LGBTQ+ Youth has increased the risk of suicide. Removing a custom access point is expected to reduce the general search and voltage search.
- Cuts and repair of behavioral health grants -The budget of the administration FY2026 proposes deep cuts to grants of Samhsa’s disorder disorder (SUD) disorder (SUD) disorder (SUD) and Samhsa marked Samhsa’s reduction/safe consumption efforts. Community providers are based on these funds. Reductions are expected to close programs, lengthen waiting lists and increase the risks of overdose and suicide.
- Federal Support has ended for access to disability soar disability-benefits – HHS finished federal support for promoting, accessing and recovering SSI/SSDI – a small but central program that helped vague and mentally ill disabled disability income. Without the help of Soar, fewer eligible people with serious mental illness will obtain SSI/SSDI, increasing the cost of lacking roofing and emergency system.
- Prevention and research violence by firearms -Reference points in cuts/redundancies that influence the prevention and research efforts to prevent CDC/NIH/ATF violence from the beginning of 2025.Over half the deaths of firearms are suicides) and community responses.
And this is besides Trump’s ridiculous and non -ridiculous comments about the causes of autism and the effects of antidepressants.
Autism’s claims: Myths vs. facts
| In short – autism Myth: Vaccines/acetaminophen cause autism. Fact: The leading organizations (CDC/WHO/National Academies) do not find a causal connection. Autism has complex genetic and developmental roots. And so: Terrorism leads to vaccination and blame pregnant women. Action: See the pages of the World Health Organization (where) here and here. |
No, acetaminophen during pregnancy does not cause autism spectrum to offspring. Any suggestion that acetaminophen causes autism is “Based on limited, contradictory and inconsistent science and is premature.“All the vaccines do is to save the mother’s life and perhaps the child’s life. This misinformation works to accuse women of the fact that their child has a spectrum of autism, which brings the expected mothers more stress and anxiety and refuses to be accessed as a relief. Vaccines do not even cause autism.
Just as with bipolar disorder, the The cause of autism spectrum disorder is not fully understood And it probably requires multiple variables, including certain genetic factors, are present to manifest as autism.
Antidepressants and Violence: Classification of evidence from rhetoric
The statements and actions taken by Trump’s administration on antidepressants can be even worse. Include:
- Trump ordered a group to control antidepressants, antipsychotics and obesity medication in children as possible “threats”, and the HHS secretary publicly likened to stop SSRI to be “worse than heroin” (source).
- The HHS secretary said the antidepressants may have contributed to the shooting of Minnesota, without evidence (source).
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) convened a SSRIS Experts Table and PregnancyWhich is a legal issue, but scares women to believe that they are not safe, they are not justified. We know clearly about the Dangers of depression during pregnancy And they go beyond possible concerns about safe use of antidepressants.
Return for World Mental Health Day
This will hurt people. This will cause pain. This will kill people.
All this is to say that I am outraged into World Mental Health Day. I knew that Trump’s administration would take the United States back when it came to social policies, but their embrace of mistreatment against science has even been shocked. All this administration is to demonize people with mental illness and their families and making it more difficult for people with mental illness to get treatment. Mental health in the United States is in a crisis point and Trump’s administration just threw gas in hell. Every person who is pushing these lies must be ashamed of himself and the whole administration must be forced to take a class in science and scientific study, because they clearly lost the basics.
Please, please do not buy their lies. Go to medical agencies for information on medical issues. The administration has wasted any power it might ever have.
