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Showing Original Post only (View all)Mentally ill flood ER as states cut services [View all]
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Snip< Across the country, doctors like Sullivan are facing a spike in psychiatric emergencies - attempted suicide, severe depression, psychosis - as states slash mental health services and the country's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression takes its toll.
Snip< "These are people without a previous psychiatric history who are coming in and telling us they've lost their jobs, they've lost sometimes their homes, they can't provide for their families, and they are becoming severely depressed," said Dr. Felicia Smith, director of the acute psychiatric service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
http://news.yahoo.com/mentally-ill-flood-er-states-cut-services-131133880.html
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I'm a federal employee and my co-workers seem completely oblivious to what is
TheDebbieDee
Dec 2011
#37
Cutting mental health services caused the exploding prison population in the first place...
Deep13
Dec 2011
#6
That is just it, they don't need social programs, they need permanent institutional care.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#77
It wasn't until Reagan, in fact, that the phemomenon of "homelessness" became real, and I'm 62.
whathehell
Dec 2011
#34
One of the bullet points used to bash Occupy Los Angeles before the raid was
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2011
#14
"America" May not believe in Evolution, but she sure believes in survival of the 'fittest'
n2doc
Dec 2011
#12
Privatization is bad even for those of us who are reasonably able to function in society.
BreweryYardRat
Dec 2011
#23
My 6 year old grandson was taking medication for ADD his dad was told there is a shortage
Tippy
Dec 2011
#36
Yeah, I figured I'd either trash my response or my account would get trashed due to it. ;P (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2011
#48
No one denies there is a difference between situational depression and clinical depression. nt
Still Blue in PDX
Dec 2011
#90
This is what our christian society has come to, with our for profit 'health-care' system
got root
Dec 2011
#59
Our local governments were doing this even before the downturn and teabagger elections
Blue_Tires
Dec 2011
#88