Psychiatric Times September 19, 2024
How can we improve rural mental health?
We live and work in rural communities. I (Jeff) am the founder and chairmanof Rural Minds and from rural upstate New York. I (John) spend part of my time in the least populated county of North Carolina and serve as the chief medical officer and executive vice president at Otsuka in the US. Our experiences in rural America have shown us that in rural communities, though unique in their people and landscapes, mental health inequity is ubiquitous. Across the country, rural residents are struggling to address the growing and seemingly intractable mental health crisis.
For me (Jeff), this crisis is my lived experience.1 I come from a long line of farmers and growing...