“Medical treatment of mental illness is much more effective in 2018 than it was in 1963. “
False. What utter crapola. And the families are left struggling trying to deal with it by themselves.
Exactly! Anyone telling you mental illness is better treated today that 50 years ago is ignorant on the topic.
While the population has more than doubled since the 1950s when 500,000 Americans were institutionalize... the number institutionalized today is about 100,000. While drugs and other things have changed treatment and helped many... the belief pharmacology has solved 90% of those with mental illness (which is what you need to believe to accept the current institutionalized numbers) is wholesale ignorance