There have been half a dozen such strikes at Kaiser in the past decade, as mental health care workers, unheralded, have fought to make it possible to treat patients with the attention and treatments they deserve (and pay for). They are part of a much wider movement that seeks to raise mental health care to a level, if not a right, at least equal to parity with medical care. And this at a moment when few can deny that this country is experiencing a deep crisis (depression, addiction, suicide) made all the worse by COVID 19, the rash of massacres, a political malaise, and the spectacle of war, altogether producing an ubiquitous anxiety, always in the background, all of which undermine resilience and resistance. More

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