Bill Text: IL HR0912 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares the week of October 7-13, 2018 as "Mental Illness Awareness Week" in the State of Illinois.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HR0912 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0912-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, In 1990, Congress designated the first full week | ||||||
| 3 | in October as Mental Illness Awareness Week in recognition of | ||||||
| 4 | the efforts by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) | ||||||
| 5 | to raise mental illness awareness; each year the movement grows | ||||||
| 6 | stronger as people work together to fight stigma, provide | ||||||
| 7 | support, and advocate for equal care; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The lives of millions of Americans are affected | ||||||
| 9 | daily by mental health conditions; according to NAMI, | ||||||
| 10 | approximately one in five adults experiences mental illness in | ||||||
| 11 | a given year, and approximately one in five young people | ||||||
| 12 | experience a severe mental disorder at some point during life; | ||||||
| 13 | half of all chronic mental illness begins by age 14; three | ||||||
| 14 | quarters begins by age 24; despite effective treatment, there | ||||||
| 15 | are long delays, sometimes decades, between the first | ||||||
| 16 | appearance of symptoms and when people get help; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Each mental illness has its own symptoms, and | ||||||
| 18 | trying to tell the difference between what expected behaviors | ||||||
| 19 | are and what might be the signs of a mental illness is not | ||||||
| 20 | always easy; there is no easy test to diagnose mental illness; | ||||||
| 21 | common signs in adults and adolescents can include excessive | ||||||
| 22 | worrying or fear, extreme mood changes, changes in sleeping and | ||||||
| 23 | eating habits, and difficulty perceiving reality; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Individuals living with serious mental illness | ||||||
| 2 | face an increased risk of having chronic medical conditions; | ||||||
| 3 | adults in the United States living with serious mental illness | ||||||
| 4 | die, on average, 25 years earlier than others, largely due to | ||||||
| 5 | treatable medical conditions; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Public policy makes a difference in the lives of | ||||||
| 7 | both the people living with mental health conditions and the | ||||||
| 8 | people in their lives; changes in policy can mean better | ||||||
| 9 | outcomes; therefore, be it
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| 10 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 11 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 12 | declare the week of October 7-13, 2018 as Mental Illness | ||||||
| 13 | Awareness Week in the State of Illinois; and be it further
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| 14 | RESOLVED, That we encourage communities throughout the | ||||||
| 15 | State to come together and show support for the many people | ||||||
| 16 | affected by mental illness and for those who advocate for | ||||||
| 17 | mental health awareness.
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