LINK How The Loss Of U.S. Psychiatric Hospitals Led To A Mental Health Crisis : NPR
I remember this horrible for those patients
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One of the biggest media influencers that led to the acceptance of the de institutionalized [pbs.org]
MarkiusMahamius
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Oct 6, 2019
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The article states:
"State hospitals began to realize that individuals who were there probably could do well in the community," he tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson. "It was well-intended, but what I believe happened over the past 50 years is that there's been such an evaporation of psychiatric therapeutic spaces that now we lack a sufficient number of psychiatric beds."
I don’t think that’s what happened. I think that there were a series of legal cases challenging involuntary commitment of mentally ill patients. This article catalogs those cases.
Some horrible, horrible things used to happen in some of those mental asylums. Today there are strict requirements before a person can be hospitalized involuntarily. It has been decided that mentally disturbed people are better off in their communities rather than locked in an asylum and that they have a legal right to be free.
WilliamFleming
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Oct 5, 2019
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President Reagan closed U.S. psychiatric hospitals, creating the huge homeless problem in America. Heartless.
Vote Republicans out of office!
LiterateHiker
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Oct 5, 2019
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True by stopping aid to states for that
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