Re: Mental health disablities
By: Dumas Walker to MATTHEW MUNSON on Mon Sep 23 2024 09:57 am
> > I think people with unchecked schizofrenia should be required to go on
> > medical treatment, if they have a criminal record.
> There are a lot of ways I think that people should be required to get
> treatment but, due to our lax treatment of mental illnesses, they never are.
> Recently, the closest large (and leftist) city to me has been in a lot of
> trouble for what their police and jail system have been up to. However, one
> of the most recent things they've been criticised for is putting people with
> obvious mental conditions into the local state-run psych hospital rather than
> into "mainstreaming programs."
I'm in wisconsin. if people want help they can't even get it. psychologists and
psychiatrists can not earn a living here in this state. I guess it has something
to do with insurance coverage and other factors. I'm no expert, I just know of
people who needed help and had to go to a regular doctor who gave them pills
instead.
I guess after the pandemic the need for mental health professionals has
increased even more.
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