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For the truly mentally ill, reopen the institutions, where they will be safe from harming themselves and others. This will drive down costs tremendously on thes
by notliketherest 10y ago
For the truly mentally ill, reopen the institutions, where they will be safe from harming themselves and others. This will drive down costs tremendously on these cities that suffer from chronic homelessness. Have we got away from that whole 1960s, "One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest" notion that mental institutions are nothing more than jails and that these people are just following their own "movies" and just need to be "let free"? These are sick people that need shelter and help and cannot do it themselves.
- pyre 10y agoWhile many of these people need help, the institutions were closed because they were rife with abuse. It's a playground for predators. If their victims attempt to speak up, you have the choice between believing the "sane" person or the person that is so mentally disabled that they need to be in an institution. > These are sick people that need shelter and help There is a large amount of literature on how said institutions didn't provide much help other than sedating people and subjecting them to procedures like lobotomy for diagnosis such as "mild" as depression.