Mentally ill flood ER as states cut services

[pitohui]

40. is that a mental health problem?

people w/out a previous psych history who are severely depressed because they can't provide for their families are now crazy people who should be getting mental health "services..." also known as being made fat and neuter with prozac or other SSRIs?

this isn't a mental health problem, it's a social problem that should be solved by giving the folks in questions jobs and/or money

to tell a person whose job is gone, who can't provide for their family, that they are crazy and should be given drugs because they're suicidal is just plain cruel...they have a right to be sad and angry, they are not imagining what is happening to them, THEY ARE NOT MENTALLY ILL, they are in grief because something terrible has happened to them and society has decreed that they are of no value and not worthy of a paycheck to support their families...how is it mental illness to be depressed about that?

we are asking the wrong questions, and it is cruel to stuff people into the "mentally ill" category and labeling them as ill, destroying their future hopes of being employable forever, because we are in an economic recession

there is decent scientific evidence that many people who suffer from "depression' have a better grasp of reality than optimists, who are in denial, so to call the depressed person who sees their tragedy accurate mentally ill is not a good strategy for the long-term health of our society...if we have growing numbers of depressed, suicidal people in their most productive years, it is time to recognize that it isn't a defective mentally ill "crazy" individual, it's something wrong w. the way we've set up our society...we are throwing away good people who could work and they are NOT crazy to be sad/angry about it