Pressley met with Boston Marathon bombing survivors to discuss the Post-Disaster Mental Health Response Act, which she and other lawmakers filed in 2021. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law in December.
Marathon bombing survivor Manya Chylinski called Pressley's office after connecting with fellow survivors and hearing that they all had struggled to find mental health care after the traumatic event.
"We know that the earlier you help people, the better chance they have at recovery, and that might mean helping people enough that they don't then need formal mental health treatment," Chylinski said. She was afraid to leave her building and to get into a taxi alone with a male driver, she said. When Julian went to the emergency room for what was later diagnosed as PTSD and a brain injury, doctors offered to have her see a priest, then sent her home with discharge papers with just the word"anxiety" on them, she said Tuesday.
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