halfastros81 said:
Why wouldn't better solutions for mental illness diagnoses and treatment be palatable ?
It should be quite palatable but for some reason folks do not seem to get worked up behind it.
Mental health issues have long carried a stigma. Post about suicide on this forum and see how many comments come back regarding what selfish behavior it is or make an immediate correlation to SSRIs or similar. Neither of those do anything to solve the issue, but to demeanor the victim or to attack a politically convenient target.
Mental health facilities in the US were chronically underfunded and suffered criticisms from all angles, some founded and some unfounded. To resolve this, we simply closed these facilities and sent the more violent ones to prison and the less violent ones were turned out to the communities and streets.
When prison populations became the issue, we went through those with "compassion" and turned more out into communities and the streets.
For those with means / healthcare, we medicated and shoved the children and adults into society without knowing the long-term effectiveness of these "treatments".
I am oversimplifying very complex issues for brevity, but there are palatable solutions that people need to have courage to embrace and discuss.
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