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Absent the mental hospitals we are all living in the Cuckoo's Nest.
Posted on 11/13/2025 4:05:29 AM PST by lightman
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Absent the mental hospitals we are all living in the Cuckoo's Nest.
Shock therapy might work with these people. Was it that bad?
“program to close its psychiatric hospitals and shift care to less-restrictive community programs”
What a nightmare. Let the crazy people walk around free and let the community deal with them.
More effective is a lie.
Community mental health was a pie in the sky idea that doesn’t work. Yes, it would be less expensive if we didn’t need in patient care for the mentally ill. But the fact is, there are plenty of people who are completely living in another reality who cannot take care of themselves, don’t trust their families, won’t accept help, can’t keep a job, don’t have a real concept of time, won’t stay on their medication and are a very real threat to themselves and others. These patients need to have in patient treatment so they are not sleeping under a bridge or in jail, victimized by bad people and existing in filth. Is it so much to ask that your mentally ill child, parent, or relative have a clean bed and regular simple meals and a diagnosis and their medication?
This is how we got men dressing up as women and killing others who don’t agree with them.
Shock therapy might work with these people. Was it that bad?
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It was that bad. All it did was cause brain damage.
They’re already there.
Reopen Polk State Hospital!!!
I lived in Missouri; there was no in-patient treatment for the mentally ill. The families were to cope with them in Missouri and in Kansas, which did have some limited in patient treatment centers. There were some heartbreaking murders that took place by the mentally ill, one of a social worker in Overland Park, Kansas who went to a scheduled visit with her client and got murdered; one in Stillwell, Kansas by a mentally ill brother who drove to the family home from Lawrence KS where mom had gotten him into college. There he found his high school aged sister and murdered her. So, no, “they aren’t already there.”
Closing the State hospitals was a huge mistake forcing families to struggle with mentally individuals in their homes without any support or treatment resources. The consequences of the new laws pushed mentally ill individuals onto the streets as families couldn’t contend with the issues created in their homes. There isn’t support or a system in place to treat mentally ill population unless they are committed to jail for a crime.
Duh.
Anyone who wants an example of what happens when the state abandons the mentally ill by closing facilities to keep them housed/safe and, correspondingly, support the societal model...
...look to Oregon. Poster child. The left owns this disaster, and it spreads like a facilitated cancer.
Future potus candidate newscum owns this, too.
https://theava.com/archives/226539
Its a damn shame that states did not take a different path 40 years ago with state mental hospitals. Its become increasingly evident that states need a place to house the mentally ill. Community housing does not work. But, speaking just for Pennsylvania, the state facilities are in horrible shape. Take one of the last PA state hospitals - Norristown State Hospital - as an example. Many of its buildings are empty because they literally should be condemned. The grounds are not kept. The building interiors look horrible with leaks in the ceilings and plaster cracking off the walls. And that’s in the buildings where patients are housed. There needs to be a state investment in improving and expanding state hospitals and then the mentally ill homeless need to be rounded up and put in them with involuntary commitment so that they cannot check themselves out.
We need to find a way to do it on the cheap. There is a thin line between mental hospitalization and warehousing. The left will point out the inhumanity. Their response will be more money. Place them in rural areas like they do prisons. More open space-more therapeutic. It’s not the answer but these type of patients don’t need state of the art buildings-just enough muscle in their staffing.
Attempts to “deinstitutionalize” psychiatric treatment go back to the Kennedy administration which passed the Community Mental Health Center Act.. What always has happened is that people who need to be confined are released, in the name of their civil rights, and then do not get the treatment they need to live outside the structure of a brick and mortar institution. Psychiatric meds made a huge difference beginning in the late 50s early 60s but are of no use when patients don’t take them.
The issue of competency restoration is a whole different issue, which confuses the legal and medical systems in a legal tangle. Many people committed for ‘restoration’ purposes do not cooperate with efforts to restore them, for obvious reasons—once restored to competency, they go to trial and usually face conviction and imprisonment for their crime. Sitting in a hospital seems like a better alternative, and it is— for them.
A bad investment. The mental health establishment is creating its own clients. Drugging kids replaces discipline. Zombies roaming the streets, addicted to medical substitutes for illegal drugs, rather than in mental wards. Criminals released, drugged, and prone to commit more crimes, rather than being in jail. Medicalized female professionals who go off at you without warning.
The brain-those meds that work on it have got to be all over the place. When you look at how complicated the brain is and all those chemicals taken to treat all forms of mental illness it brings one to think that the doctors are all just feeling their way around in the dark. These people need to be taken away from the rest of us so that we can get on with our lives. We have an obligation to take care of these people who cannot take care of themselves. We get the resources by taking away our gifts to the able-bodied.
Big Pharma needs to develop skin-patch head-meds that can be secured under a GPS alarmed ankle bracelet.
That would solve the “off his meds” problem.
Bingo! you forgot a bunch of overpaid social workers who facilitate the exploitation of the insane.
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