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Pointing to the worst abuse of a system of the same name when that is clearly not the intent and claiming this is what the person wants is a lie. It is possibl

Pointing to the worst abuse of a system of the same name when that is clearly not the intent and claiming this is what the person wants is a lie. It is possible to keep mentally ill in walled communities and those communities not resemble the above. There are activities which are known to help some of these people, such as gardening (plants are cheap, forgiving, rewarding, and have no real profit motive). There are large numbers of mentally ill people who are given a bottle of pills and just released to fend for themselves. This became common after the development of certain medications and the government felt it was a lot cheaper than institutionalizing them.

amadeuspagel 3y ago
As another comment points[1] out, this is far from the worst abuse of the system: > The asylum system in the US was not dismantled because people like Edna Long had their inter-generational wealth stolen from their children/grandchildren. It was dismantled because in the 1960s it was shown that these places were engaging in torture. The journalist who broke the Pennhurst story (that culminated in the ending of the asylum system in the US) wanted to have the grounds turned into a museum modeled after the Holocaust Museum because he had uncovered how things like, full mouth tooth removal was being used as a routine punishment method, among other things. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36831467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36831467