ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week.
This week, we read about how society struggles to provide care for mentally ill patients, both in the U.S. and abroad. First we spend time with an investigation by our colleagues at HuffPost Highline, and learned about how early intervention programs can be life-changing treatments for patients with schizophrenia — and why the U.S. isn’t using them.
We were also transfixed by a video from West Africa, where treatments for major mental illnesses are limited. While mentally ill people in the U.S. frequently land in prison, the last stop for people with schizophrenia in one part of West Africa is being chained to a concrete block in a prayer camp.Â
Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read, watch and love this week?