DJ Jaffe is the author of Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill (Prometheus, 2017). He writes on serious mental illness (not mental health). His op-eds have appeared in New York Times, Washington Post, Sacramento Bee, New York Daily News, New York Post, San Diego Union Tribune, Albany Times Union and numerous other publications. He regularly writes on serious mental illness for the Huffington Post and National Review. Serious mental illness is a poorly understood illness that only affects 4% of the population over 18. Many journalists confuse it with poor mental health which can affect everyone or mental illness which is said to effect 20% of population. The issues that need to be addressed to solve the mental illness crisis are often overlooked by reporters who focus on pop-psychology or couch their pieces in political correctness that prevents unpleasant truths from being told.