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11. There's a big difference between funding tertiary mental health care,

Mon Jan 1, 2024, 01:05 PM

Jan 2024

And involuntarily committing millions of people just because they are homeless, addicted, mentally ill, or combination of all three.

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The Return of the Mental Hospital [View all] babylonsister Jan 2024 OP

Reagon Timewas Jan 2024 #1

"It worked"? How? We turned folks who needed help out on the streets, to sinkingfeeling Jan 2024 #5

I did not mean Timewas Jan 2024 #17

Yes ._. Jan 2024 #30

Hear, hear!!!!!!! BigmanPigman Jan 2024 #58

I think/hope "it" meant that the hospitals worked. live love laugh Jan 2024 #18

Yes Timewas Jan 2024 #21

No, it didn't work in CA and it's a disaster nationwide relayerbob Jan 2024 #6

Reagan is blamed or credited depending on how you look at it. former9thward Jan 2024 #10

The GOP hated that those were Union jobs IbogaProject Jan 2024 #31

The deinstitutionalization movement did try to work with the unions thucythucy Jan 2024 #49

When Reagan and his RW pushed this decades ago, those who actually gave a damn KNEW hlthe2b Jan 2024 #2

100% this relayerbob Jan 2024 #7

It started with JFK and the community mental health center model. Mosby Jan 2024 #9

There was nothing wrong with the concept except as Reagan pushed it--an "end all, be-all" unfunded hlthe2b Jan 2024 #14

As someone who spent time in one of those institutions thucythucy Jan 2024 #45

I am very sorry for your experience and I am not diminishing the horrors and abuses of some of those hlthe2b Jan 2024 #48

I apologize for misrepresenting your post thucythucy Jan 2024 #50

I understand and I do agree with the points you are making. hlthe2b Jan 2024 #51

They were replaced with jails and prisons. multigraincracker Jan 2024 #3

True, but the jails are way more profitable. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2024 #36

To the GOPers, certainly, it was all about profit, as ever DarthDem Jan 2024 #56

Yup. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Jan 2024 #61

The original article is by Carmen Paun in Politico. enough Jan 2024 #4

Thank you for posting the original. I know sometimes it's hard to locate the original erronis Jan 2024 #23

It was cruel. MuseRider Jan 2024 #8

There's a big difference between funding tertiary mental health care, Fiendish Thingy Jan 2024 #11

Indeed! Many were committed and not for mental illness PortTack Jan 2024 #20

It was a simple way MorbidButterflyTat Jan 2024 #40

"Community-based care championed since the 1960s" was never adequately funded. hunter Jan 2024 #12

The JFK administration first advocated the community-based clinic/hospital model for... keep_left Jan 2024 #33

I have first hand experience with the... 2naSalit Jan 2024 #13

I am so sorry for your experience, especially knowing how many others experienced similar. hlthe2b Jan 2024 #19

I hope so too... 2naSalit Jan 2024 #24

Her son's survival, success, and you & your sisters' loving embrace of him is indeed the bright spot... hlthe2b Jan 2024 #27

It is... 2naSalit Jan 2024 #28

and you too! hlthe2b Jan 2024 #32

What was it that your 4-and-a-half year old self... 3catwoman3 Jan 2024 #62

Some sense that... 2naSalit Jan 2024 #63

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Thanks... 2naSalit Jan 2024 #47

This sounds like great news ColinC Jan 2024 #15

Sorry, but reopening mental hospitals will not fix the core inequity flashman13 Jan 2024 #16

There is some correlation but economic inequities are not the root cause of these issues. erronis Jan 2024 #26

Rich people don't have to choose between medication and groceries ck4829 Jan 2024 #41

Being homeless Timewas Jan 2024 #34

Just improve upon it ecstatic Jan 2024 #22

Seems like Cherokee100 Jan 2024 #25

Delusional, folk who have lost their grip on reality and are a dangerous threat to others should be in a secure unit. Doodley Jan 2024 #29

Psy industry money and population of shrinks are increasing bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 #35

The ED of my hospital, is always boarding people with mental illness ismnotwasm Jan 2024 #37

As far as I remember it was the ACLU that started the ball rolling on shuttering the mental hospitals. LiberalArkie Jan 2024 #38

Yeah.........that's not the way I read that MorbidButterflyTat Jan 2024 #42

Mental health needs to be created, not mental illness eliminated gulliver Jan 2024 #39

crownsville state mental hospital et tu Jan 2024 #43

Malthus, anybody? Bmoboy Jan 2024 #44

I don't think some of the historical mental hospitals can BE reopened nitpicked Jan 2024 #52

"...constituents have had it with the brazen drug use and tent encampments in their cities." J_William_Ryan Jan 2024 #53

Reagan didn't "turn people out" brooklynite Jan 2024 #54

USA Asylum - January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021 Kennah Jan 2024 #55

My family discussed this at Xmas dinner.... BigmanPigman Jan 2024 #57

Reagan was decades ago Mz Pip Jan 2024 #59

Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 UpInArms Jan 2024 #60