HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT

MENTAL HEALTH – Southwest Regional Support Network (SWRSN)

Contact us at: 360-501-1201 or 1-800-347-6092

"Mental Health is an essential element of overall health and a condition from which people can and do recover."

If you or someone you know is having a crisis,

please call 360-425-6064 or 800-803-8833, 24/7.

The Southwest Regional Support Network (SWRSN) is a division of the Human Services Department. The Mission of the SWRSN is to manage the provision of a consumer driven network of individualized mental health services, which reduces stigma and promotes recovery and resiliency.

Mental health problems may be related to excessive stress due to a particular situation or series of events. As with cancer, diabetes and heart disease, mental illnesses are physical as well as emotional and psychological. Mental illness may be caused by a reaction to environmental stresses, genetic factors, biochemical imbalances, or a combination of these. With proper care and treatment, many individuals learn to cope or recover from a mental illness or emotional disorder.

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What is mental illness? - A mental illness is a condition that causes mild to severe disturbances in a person's thought and/or behavior. This results in an inability to cope with life's ordinary demands and routines.

What are the symptoms in Adults? - Confused thinking, prolonged sadness or irritability, feelings of extreme highs and lows, excessive fears, worries, and anxieties, social withdrawal, dramatic changes in eating or sleeping habits, strong feelings of anger, delusions or hallucinations.

What are the symptoms in Older Children? - Substance abuse, inability to cope with problems and daily activities, change in sleeping and/or eating habits, excessive complaints of physical ailments, defiance of authority, truancy, theft, and /or vandalism, intense fear of weight gain, prolonged negative mood, often accompanied by poor appetite or thoughts of death, frequent outbursts of anger.

What are the symptoms in Younger Children? - Changes in school performance, poor grades despite strong efforts, excessive worry or anxiety (i.e. refusing to go to bed or school), hyperactivity, persistent nightmares, persistent disobedience or aggression, frequent temper tantrums.

Mental Illness is NOT a weakness! Mental illness can strike anyone. It knows no age limits, economic status, race, creed, or color. During the course of a year, more than 54 million Americans are affected by one or more mental disorders (National Mental Health Association).

It is sometimes easy to forget that our brain, like all of our other organs, is vulnerable to disease. Mental illness is a disease that causes mild to severe disturbances in thinking, perception, and behavior. With the proper care and treatment, a person can recover and resume normal activities.

People with mental illnesses, like everyone else, have the potential to work at any level depending on their own abilities, experience, and motivation.

"Mental health is an essential element of overall health and a condition from which people can and do recover."