Best-selling author and journalist Judith Warner met with NIMH Director, Tom Insel . Warner has written extensively about American family culture, raising children in today’s society, and now, the challenges faced by families of children diagnosed with mental disorders. Ms. Warner is a former contributing columnist for the New York Times and was a special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/media/video/speaking-of-science/warner.shtml

The U.S. spends approximately $120 billion annually on direct mental health care

.(T.L. Mark et al, National Expenditures for Mental Health Services, 1993-2003, DHHS Publication No. SMA 07-4227, 2007).