Mental health resources available for people struggling in Central California

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Our intelligence wellness is tied to our day-to-day activities.

"It's related to carnal health," said Coraline Robinson with Balance Treatment Center. "Our quality to work, to our economy. It's truly related to everything."

Our intelligence wellness besides has an interaction connected our temper and behavior, with experts saying our situation and who we are astir tin play a captious role. That's wherefore creating affirmative connections is key.

"We tin power and take our behavior," said Robinson. "It is mostly influenced by who we take to beryllium around. When we're depressed oregon anxious, if we stay alone, the accidental for alteration decreases."

According to the National Alliance connected Mental Illness, successful 2021, 5.5% of U.S. adults had superior symptoms. But successful that aforesaid year, 65% received treatment.

In 2016, 16.5% of kids had immoderate benignant of symptom, and adjacent to 51% received help.

"So the much we speech astir intelligence wellness conditions, the much we speech astir however communal intelligence wellness conditions are," said Dr. Amy Parks, the Executive Director of NAMI Fresno.

NAMI Fresno offers enactment groups year-round for radical who are struggling, offering enactment to some families and individuals. Dr. Parks tells Action News they get implicit 100 calls a period from radical looking for help.

"Either for support, to find information, to get connections to resources oregon to different radical and travel to our groups," said Dr. Parks.

If you spot idiosyncratic struggling, inquire if they're okay.

"You tin conscionable accidental 'I've noticed that you look a small different, you look a small off, are you okay?'" said Dr. Parks.

Experts accidental to scope retired due to the fact that you are not alone.

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