Hospital ERs Struggle To Treat Surge Of Mental Health Patients

A Newsy investigation finds more Americans are going to the ER during a mental health crisis, and why they aren't getting the help they need.

More Americans going through a mental health crisis are seeking care in hospital emergency rooms not always equipped to give the psychiatric care they need, a Newsy investigation has learned. 

Breia Birch, 44, suffers from bipolar, post-traumatic stress and dissociative identity disorders. 

She began thinking about suicide after her mother’s death in 2017.