Welcome to Why Not Me, embracing autism and mental health worldwide, hosted by Tony Mior.

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Hi, I'm Tony Mantor.

Welcome to Why Not Me, embracing autism and mental health worldwide.

Today, we're joined by Maria, who shares her journey in the healthcare field and the challenges she faced advocating for her brother with serious mental

illness. It's a pleasure to have her here, so would you kindly give us a little information on your

background? Yeah, so first for me, I would say a previous job that I held. So just for background,

I have a bachelor's and a master's degree in public health. And my job that I held in between

the bachelor's and the master's degree, I was working in a medical facility, basically as someone

that helps folks who would come in to see our doctors that needed to have some help getting

through services and trying to find certain services they might need, which very frequently

were mental health or substance use disorder related services. So, for example, someone might come in

and see their doctor and, you know, talk to the doctor about their struggling with anxiety and

depression and the doctor might suggest for them that they may want to see a mental health

professional. Is that something they would set up or did you handle that? If that person didn't

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