Integrated Behavioral Health Services Serves Community With Key Mental Health Services [Video]

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Jamie Scott, Chief Innovation Officer at Integrated Behavioral Health Services, says 1 in every 25 adults is diagnosed with severe mental illness. Severe mental illnesses include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder.

“One of the biggest misconceptions is that we run into is that when you receive a diagnosis like that is that it’s the end of everything,” said Scott. “Which we have just found to not be true at all, that individuals who are living with these more severe diagnoses are able to lead what we would call normal everyday lives, holding jobs, being members of the community. There’s a lot that can be done to help people be happy and …