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When push comes to shove all the struggles that harm America can actually be boiled down to a single issue, and that issue is mental health. Either your mental state effects your well-being first and you struggle or you face struggles completely out of your control and that deteriorates your mental health. This is connected to every part of life. The brain is the most vital part of the body there is no life without the brain. Yet time and time again the issue is ignored, glossed over, misrepresented, or dismissed outright. The police violence while blacks are twice as likely to be killed by police a severely untreated mentally ill individual is 16 times likely to be killed by police. Our prisons and jails are the largest mental health care facilities in the country at the same time being the completely wrong ones to be in that position. There’s almost no mental health help or improvements that occur in jail, or while homeless or while dealing...