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    Mental Health Crisis Mental health stigma and suicide is a major problem affecting patients and their caregivers around the world. Stigma leads to negative behaviors and stereotypes about the person with mental illness. This causes the affected person to feel rejection and shame about their condition. All this stigma leads to underreporting and data collection methods critical to suicide prevention need to be improved. Thus, the number of mental health problems and suicide is much higher than reported. Mental health is a global problem that no one understands and one that can be read about in the article Problems and Controversies: "For most of human history, people with mental illness have been ostracized, isolated and persecuted. » (Infobase,1) This belief system can give the cause of mental illness in different cultures and such influences in a community will always be negative. Various societies struggle with the concept of mental health. The norms of each culture consider only what is normal, natural or healthy. These views lead to disagreements about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders. Many people with mental problems face discrimination because of their mental disorders. Mental illness and stigma refer to the view of the person with mental illness as having undesirable traits. Stigma leads to negative behaviors, stereotypes and discriminatory behaviors towards people with mental health problems. This stigma causes the affected person to experience denial or shame about their condition. The perception of stigma can cause the patient to be afraid to seek help. Stigma can be divided into two perspectives: public stigma and personal stigma. Upadhyay says, “Public stigma occurs when most of the time many people can afford to access or have health insurance, but their insurance does not cover mental health. The poor are those who are hit the hardest. "The American health care law does not want to spend more money on mental health. Mental health treatment services must be maintained, but also expanded to meet the mental health needs of the country. "The House and Senate versions explain. Trumpcare would phase out funding for this expansion and cut Medicaid spending by nearly a trillion dollars over a decade. 90% of people who access medication and/or treatment for mental health issues see a significant reduction in their symptoms." (2) If Trumpcare goes into effect, your only option is to be rich or maintain your physical and mental health throughout your life Treatment should not be reserved for only the rich. It will simply lead to suicide because there will be no help. the government