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10/23/2026

Mental Health Minute Episode 16 💚🧠

Election season can feel overwhelming. Constant news, campaign ads, polls, and online arguments can take a real toll.

You can stay informed and engaged without letting the news consume you. When you can, set boundaries, take breaks, focus on what you can control, and make time for the people and activities that keep you grounded.

How are you protecting your mental health this election season? Let us know below👇

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10/22/2026

Having insurance should mean you can get care. For too many people, it doesn’t.

Our Chief Advocacy Officer, Angela Kimball, spoke with DAME Magazine about how a profit-driven insurance system keeps people from the care they pay for, often by listing providers who aren’t actually taking patients.

Our Senior Vice President of Policymaker Relations, Caitlin Hochul, spoke with HealthyWomen about why it's so difficult to find care. Becoming a provider takes costly education, training, and licensing. Then insurers make it hard to earn a living wage, driving many providers out of network or out of the field altogether.

If you’ve called down a list of providers and come up empty, it’s not your fault. When you reach out for help, a provider should be there to answer.

Read both stories here: https://linkin.bio/inseparable/58134609

10/21/2026

Ever called a list of in-network therapists and gotten nowhere? You’re not imagining it, and this research, commissioned by Inseparable and just published in JAMA Health Forum, shows just how often it happens.

Researchers at The Ohio State University called to make appointments with the 5,822 psychiatrists and psychologists listed by the largest insurer in five states. Most of those calls never got through. When someone did pick up, more than half the time the listing itself was wrong – from disconnected numbers to providers who no longer offered that care – and many of the rest weren’t taking new patients. In the end, only about 1 in 8 calls led to an appointment, and the people who did get one waited nearly three weeks.

That’s a ghost network, a list of providers that looks full on paper and comes up empty when you need it most. Insurers are already required to update their directories every 90 days, and families deserve networks measured by whether people can actually get an appointment. Having insurance should mean you can actually get care.

Read the study at https://insact.us/47zSvYV and join us at carethatsfair.us

10/20/2026

New Jersey is showing the country how creative, thoughtful investments in youth mental health can help lawmakers make informed decisions about tackling the impact of social media and Big Tech on our kids.

Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced that Rutgers University will be the home of a new Social Media Research Center which will inform stronger policies, practical safeguards, and resources that help protect kids online.

It’s part of a three bill package signed in August to address social media harms to youth mental health. Supported by a $500M mental health investment in the coming state budget, the Center will ensure that NJ’s decisions about investing in kids’ mental health will be driven by data.

10/20/2026

Mental health education is an essential building block for healthy kids. It teaches them about maintaining good mental health, recognizing common conditions and asking for help, and reducing stigma.

With state legislative sessions coming up, we teamed up with our partners at NAMI and Mental Health Literacy Collaborative (MHLC) to create Mental Health Education Policy: Model Legislation and a Roadmap for State Leaders. The roadmap includes model legislation states can build on and real examples from states like Wisconsin that are doing leading work. It also shares ways smart policy can help reduce stigma, support students early, and build healthier schools for students.

Every student deserves that support, no matter which state they live in. Read the roadmap here: https://insact.us/MHEPRoadmap

10/19/2026

Ever called five therapists off your insurance provider list and gotten nowhere?

You’re not imagining it, and this article published in JAMA Health Forum just how common it is. Inseparable commissioned secret shopper studies across the nation, with the results published in 5 states. The result? Out of thousands of calls to in-network mental health providers, fewer than 1 in 4 led to an appointment.

Those are ghost networks, and they’re keeping people from care they already pay for. Read the study:

Americans with commercial insurance are generally told they have access to a strong network of mental health providers. But when researchers called providers listed in those networks, securing an appointment was usually difficult or impossible, according to a new study.Researchers, posed as “secre...

10/16/2026

Your doctor checks your blood pressure every year without waiting for a problem. Mental health deserves the same routine attention. This week, Matthew is breaking down annual wellness screenings and why catching concerns early should be standard practice in our latest episode of Policy Made Simple.

Mental health is a part of overall health. Share this with someone who needs to hear it. 🩷

10/15/2026

Companies should be held accountable for the harm their products cause people. Period.

A bipartisan coalition of states is suing OpenAI over user safety, and it’s an important step toward making sure AI tools put people’s wellbeing first.

Link to article in the comments.

10/14/2026

We’ve spent years telling people it’s okay to ask for help, and more of them are listening, taking the important first step in looking after their mental health. What they find when they do is a system still catching up. Last year, nearly half of adults living with a diagnosable mental health condition went without any treatment at all.

Some 157 million Americans live in places without enough mental health professionals, and mental health care is 3.5 times more likely than physical care to fall outside a plan’s network.

Good mental health care should be easy to get and easy to afford, and we’re working with lawmakers in Washington and in statehouses across the country to make that real.

10/13/2026

Moms can set the screen time rules. They can’t control what reaches their kids once the phone is in their hands. In Pulse Check 2026, mothers told us what they’re up against.

Concern runs high. Most moms are very or extremely concerned about every type of online content we asked about, led by sexual content that isn’t right for their child’s age (63%) and violent content (62%). Trust in tech companies is low. 65% of moms have little or no trust in AI companies to act in the best interest of kids and families, and 63% say the same about social media platforms.

Even when parents successfully set limits, concerning content still slips through. One in five moms who say their home’s screen time balance is healthy report their child saw something online that scared or upset them. Companies reach kids directly, too. 32% of moms say a product that can’t legally be sold to minors, like vapes or sports betting, was marketed to their child on the platforms.

Here’s the hopeful part: moms agree on what comes next. 77% support a law requiring social media and AI companies to protect kids, and that support holds across every political group. Kids deserve a safer online world, and moms are ready to help build it.

Swipe through to see more of the research from Count on Mothers, and find the full report here: https://insact.us/4zmcO82