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> You think mentally ill do not need a place to shower and sleep safely? Giving a locking door to an addict is a death sentence. As countless experiments have
by Gareth321 1y ago
> You think mentally ill do not need a place to shower and sleep safely?
Giving a locking door to an addict is a death sentence. As countless experiments have proven, unsupervised shelters all over California have been literally destroyed by addicts and the mentally unwell. I'm talking faeces on the walls, blood and urine everywhere, horrific attacks in the units, and eventually the place just gets burnt down. So these people need supervised shelter. In a facility. Where they're prevented from harming others and themselves. De-institutionalisation was a huge mistake. There were abuses and they needed reform, but throwing schizophrenics and addicts into the street was not kind or humane, and leaving them there is just as immoral.
- Loughla 1y agoIt's almost like there needs to be something between locking them up against their will, and just ignoring them entirely. Weird.
- jvanderbot 1y agoThere is such a gulf between the idealized treatment for an ideal downtrodden patient and the reality of a severely mentally ill person (especially with drugs involved).