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An ounce of prevention is also worth a pound of cure. More important than investing resources into helping those with mental illness is preventing people from d
by lumb63 4y ago
An ounce of prevention is also worth a pound of cure. More important than investing resources into helping those with mental illness is preventing people from developing mental illness in the first place.
Traumatic experiences like you mentioned can be reduced by better education about what to look for in healthy relationships, or providing accessible resources to catch issues early before they become major issues. Other, more subtle, issues like neglect, poor home life (often due ti poverty, difficult family situation, etc.) would require more pervasive changes to address, but if prevent issues in society on the back end due to reduced incidence of mental illness, not to mention the improvement in quality of life for those affected, we should seriously consider those options.
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoI fully agree that we should be working on preventing ACES and other environmental effects that specifically have proven out to have causal effects on mental illness. But psychosis cannot be eliminated altogether, and if someone is psychotic I would both like them to be allowed back into health even if they do not give informed consent and also I would like them to not be raped, assaulted, or otherwise abused.
- lumb63 4y agoDefinitely agree. It’s not either or, and both issues should be given attention; however I think reducing the incidence of mental illness is more fruitful than correcting the negatives of it after the fact.