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> people with mental problems fleeing rural areas and moving to cities Yes, although it is not easy, perhaps it is easier to live as a person with schizophreni
by _rpd 10y ago
> people with mental problems fleeing rural areas and moving to cities
Yes, although it is not easy, perhaps it is easier to live as a person with schizophrenia in an urban environment. Although inadequate, there are more likely to be some mental health services, and urbanites tend to encounter and tolerate a broader variety of human behaviors.
- Gibbon1 10y agoMight be people suffering an episode of mania in a rural area pass unnoticed by the various authorities.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoYes, to me this seems like a misinterpretation of the data. Growing up in a small rural blue collar town in the wifi-less farm country outside of Pittsburgh, we had our fair share of "crazies" that everybody knew about -- the ominous rotting but not abandoned house up the road that everybody stayed away from because of unsettling rumors. These data points are easily overlooked or dismissed as local lore or "rural legends." If you've seen the movie Prisoners [2013], it's startlingly accurate in this aspect.
- Gibbon1 10y agoReminds me, my brother in law's dad was in the appraisal/real estate business. Mentioned once trying to figure out what to do about a guy in one of the houses he had paper on. He apparently had shot the windows of the house out from the inside. He was obviously armed, crazy and paranoid. In a city the police would have to do something about that guy. In rural Alaska, they can wait.