Liberals are so compassionate letting the mentally ill roam the streets inside of being in an institution.
If I recall correctly, that all started during JFK’s administration. Mental hospitals in that era were pretty dreadful. But, dumping crazy people onto the streets was a terrible idea, brought to you, as you correctly stated, by the ACLU.
Today, it is very difficult to get an involuntary admission, even when it’s clearly necessary to protect the patient as well as the rest of us.
So true.
Roaming instead of in an institution? You can thank Ronald Reagan for that. His Republican group shut down not only psychiatric hospitals but half way houses. I know you know what a psychiatric hospital does (dx and tx and research if they can) but half way houses were “manned” by men and women with the training to help men and women who could not keep on a medication schedule and who could be talked “down” from whereever they got to that caused them to do what we call crazy stuff. What a disaster the loss of the hospitals and half way houses has been and it continues to today.
Now, I am a conservative and have been for 60 years and I was fairly young when Reagan did that closing of all that was keeping the insane and mentally ill from your doorstep. It would be a very good idea to reinstitute all of it.
Roaming instead of in an institution? You can thank Ronald Reagan for that. His Republican group shut down not only psychiatric hospitals but half way houses. I know you know what a psychiatric hospital does (dx and tx and research if they can) but half way houses were “manned” by men and women with the training to help men and women who could not keep on a medication schedule and who could be talked “down” from whereever they got to that caused them to do what we call crazy stuff. What a disaster the loss of the hospitals and half way houses has been and it continues to today.
Now, I am a conservative and have been for 60 years and I was fairly young when Reagan did that closing of all that was keeping the insane and mentally ill from your doorstep. It would be a very good idea to reinstitute all of it.
Remove the mentally ill from our streets
Do NOT remove the guns