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We need better mental health services in this country not for the sole purpose of avoiding more mass shootings, but for the purpose of avoiding mass suffering.
What is sanity? Almost everyone I know is nuts to one extent or another. Is the media sane? Are politicians sane? Is war sane? Are prisons sane? Are schools sane? Aren't each and every one of them just fantasy factories?
So what is sane? Mental Health facilities and programs, by and large have the goal of getting people to accept all the insanity in the world and conforming to it.
Freedom from anxiety, depression and mania can only come from within. From being self directed and working towards practical goals rather than imagined ones. And woring for people who are dependent on you, rather than just for yourself, is an enormous part of recovery. Sure, pills (or liquor) can take the edge off. That's why so many people self medicate. Some need shock treatment to really take the edge off. But thinking that mental health professionals can be more than a first aid measure, to ride out the crisis, is just more fantasy.
Until we finally start having some serious discussion and problem solving, our society will continue to suffer. I understand that people feel uncomfortable about it and prefer not to deal with mentally ill people, but the reality is that it is a problem and will not get better until we start looking for solutions. The current system is broken and needs fixing, ASAP
No, the "current system" is the fix to the broken system that we once had.
The mental institutions were shut down because it was unfair and discriminatory and that mental patients had the right to community care..this was per the Supreme Court.
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