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When it comes to mental illness, people should avoid commenting on specific cases because the details matter and only the professionals involved in those situat

When it comes to mental illness, people should avoid commenting on specific cases because the details matter and only the professionals involved in those situations actually know enough about the state of these individuals to know whether or not treatment is warranted. I know "Free Britney!" is all the rage, but the Court does not order conservatorships lightly. No one is arguing that asylums were perfect places. Far from it. There was a reason they were shut down in the 60s, but the alternative that we were promised never materialized either and the result is that we have severely mentally ill people wandering the streets now, left to their own devices. The results are all too predictable.

PuppyTailWags 4y ago
> I know "Free Britney!" is all the rage, but the Court does not order conservatorships lightly. This is an assumption, and there's very limited oversight to this. That's the problem. The reason with Brittney was originally freed was that it was found she was inappropriately in conservatorship for years longer than she needed to be, and that all of the parties that should've been advocating for her were actually paid for by her estate through her parents, effectively making it so that anyone who advocated too hard for her wellbeing was eliminated from her circle. It's unknown how many more people are in this situation and, perhaps worse, we don't even know how many conservatorships exist!