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Many, loads of them need mental heath help.
The more benign are the ones like I saw the other day, a woman arguing with a telephone pole. Others simply want a place where they can hide. By the time the police get involved it is too late for intervention. I know it’s unrealistic in the extreme to ask a police officer faced with a violent person to make a judgement on that person’s mental health. With people’s lives at stake, the officer has seconds to make a judgement, his/hers and bystanders. Of course, we need to get involved before it comes to jail or worse for the mentally ill, if we want to make a difference. Most can be helped, a few cannot, as others have noted. Furthermore, we are doing a disservice to ourselves as a nation when we ignore this and dump them on the streets.
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Your sentiments are wellplaced and constructive. This is a new America, logic has no place here. Dream about funding. Make America Great Again. People need to realize and understand, and although this has been debated back and forth for a trillion years, that what we as society call mental illness is no more than a pejorative judgement, subjective not clinical in terms of objective data, designed to subjugate a mass of men and women to the whims and ‘profit taking’ of a master class, and no amount of human rights violations, lies, or evidence to the contrary is go to make that master class give up their privileged position in society. We can talk about how to rehabilitate those doctors, their funders, acolytes and the like, once we have got this understanding squared away. Now let me tell you something. We will see you in Hell on Judgment Day.
One problem I feel should be pointed out is the funding, this is an excellent article with valid points.
Some are recieving almost two hundred dollar in food stamps, althoughnonetheless the house provides food to the clients. Needless to say, this in my opinion is a waste of money. Have you heard of something like that before, am I correct? The clients allergies, we take the clients likes and dislikes into account and do meal planning with them weekly, as a care manager we are educated on what to buy. Nonetheless, the cabinets are always stocked with food as well as the refrigerator. Because of medicare and medicaid fraud by hospitals and doctors, individuals billing and not well educated on how to bill, the question should be are we using the current budgets alloted to the public wisely. Not because of high costs or expensive housing to care for people with mental health issues. Yes, that’s right! Medicaid and Medicare billing errors or laziness on an employee part cost billions. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Assertive Out Patient Treatment ain’t affective, actually it actually is billed as a program for medicaid and or medicare, it hinders a clients ability to be placed in a therapeatic program due to double billing. There’s a lot more information about it on this site. The clients on this still do whatever they want and again do to the double billing they can not go into a program where they actually get help. Lastly, with an eye to fix our current mental health system, we must reform it from the top down. It must have transperency.
Most mental illness has little or nothing to do with up bringing loads of mental illness is chemical and can as a matter of fact be treated with medications, althoughalbeit your sentiments are well founded. They will often stop taking it and they are back in barrel again, So if the person taking the medication ain’t supported and monitored. Surely it’s circular, expensive, and non productive. Supportive relationships indoors and among friendsd. Enough self discipline and insight to take medication on time quite often and report in when active symptoms start to appear. They need an institution to provide care for substantial periods of time, I’d say if there are lacking. Considering the above said. Loads of people have struggled for years without rising out of severe depression. At the very least, we need to greatly increase readily supply available quality outpatient and short term inpatient care. Then again, even with that, we still need to reinvent quality ‘longterm’ care.
By the way, the willingness to address them is growing, the challenges are great.
While Stepping Up, an initiative to reduce people number with mental illnesses in jails, held a national summit in Washington, where teams of law enforcement, court, corrections, and mental health professionals and county leaders gathered to develop comprehensive plans to address the issue in their jails, last month. Besides, the writer might have added the Governors Cuomo to suspects list. When Mario was governor he took the money that the state got from real sale estate of closed mental hospitals that was supposed to go to funding outpatient clinics and put it in the general fund to pay for other things. Amid the first things his son did as governor was to cut funding for the mentally care ill. It’s a well it seems not requiring adequate funding for the mentally care ill is the one of the problems conservatives and liberals agree on.
We Need Better Mental Health ServicesClaims to the contrary notwithstanding, improvement in widespread understanding of what mental illness is and what its causes are ain’t forthcoming. Spending more money without knowing what you are doing won’t improve the situation. Normally, causes include the discrepancies in society between what we say and what we actually do. You cannot raise healthy children while presenting them with a diet of contradictions. You see, these contradictions abound in our society. Until we admit the truth, no ‘longterm’ improvement can be expected. Many people do not have access to proven interventions. There have been too many budget cuts to treatment dollars, and there are too few providers available to deliver care, Too many people have no medical insurance. These obstacles should lead to a call to action, not a call to further confine people with mental illness.
In the 2008 aftermath recession, states were forced to cut over copay and for a drug which is helping so much, it should be better paid for by these insurance programs. That’s money i can’t count on now for other essential expenses, Granted, my social security check which is a government benefit does pay for it.
The movement to deinstitutionalize people with mental illness that began in the 1960s shifted a bunch of fiscal responsibility from the states to the federal government.
The Community Mental Health Act of 1963, signed into law by President Kennedy, was never adequately funded. Whenever housing and rehabilitation, in addition to psychiatric treatment, didn’t follow the people into the community, resources that once paid for food. Rather to fulfill deinstitutionalization promise by providing effective treatment and supports in the least restrictive setting, the answer isn’t simply to build more psychiatric facilities.
We need better funding for mental health services.
In such absence funding, we, as a nation, have been under the delusion that if we cut government spending for everything and anything -other than the spending that lets the folks in the government get reelected -the amount of tax revenue lost will create more wealth for everyone! We will use our magnified wealth to more wisely allocate funds to all of those things that governments used to do better than anyone could have imagined! Also, we will have the bestest jet fighters and baddest navy in the world and we will use them to show the world that they should live like we do!
for homeless individuals with mental illnesses, a place to stay with added support services can enable them to thrive. Supported employment is a method of getting people competitive jobs despite their disabilities. Medications, including those that can halt addiction devastating effects, allow people to resume their roles as students, parents and employees. Known assertive community treatment models meet people where they live and assist in connecting them to needed services. For homeless individuals with mental illnesses, a place to stay with added support services can enable them to thrive.
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On top of that, supported employment is a method of getting people competitive jobs despite their disabilities. Medications, including those that can halt addiction devastating effects, allow people to resume their roles as students, parents and employees. Assertive community treatment models meet people where they live and assist in connecting them to needed services.
