Inside Medicare | What Can I Do When My Mental Health is Unsteady?

Janell Sluga Medicare & Individual Health Insurance Account Executive View Bio

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Question:

I’m feeling lost in today’s world. Can my Medicare Insurance help me get support? What else can I do?

Answer:

My first response is: come let me give you a hug! I am so sorry to hear you are feeling that way. I want you to understand that there is help out there for you. There are also a lot of things in your life you can control.

You have Medicare Insurance and ALL the products that go with Medicare coverage do cover mental health services. If you have original Medicare and a Medicare Supplement, you can see any provider that participates in Medicare. There are a lot of them in our community.

If you have a Medicare Advantage Plan, you can call your insurance company and ask for mental health providers in our community who are in-network with your plan. You can also call the mental health providers in our community and ask if they participate in your plan for 2026.

Besides professional help from Medicare, I’d like to provide you with several other ideas to help you through this hard time.

1. Reach out to your religious community leaders. All faiths provide support services but you must tell them what you need. If you don’t belong to a church or faith community, you can go to one near you, walk in and sit for a while in the service, or talk with the staff there.
2. Make an impact on others in the world in a positive way. Set a goal for yourself to help others to make the world around you a better place.
   1. At no cost, provide someone your expertise in a certain field that can benefit them.
   2. Help someone get their groceries to their car or into their house.
   3. Donate something that you no longer need.
   4. Volunteer for a cause that you believe in.

Small acts of kindness are good for you and also good for our community. This is one of the ways that I find helps me stay centered in a positive place. It also makes me feel like I can make the world a little better every day.

I hope some of these suggestions are helpful to you. I understand being sad, alone and overwhelmed. Know that you do matter and you are a person of value.