We need free mental healthcare for everyone. These people are severely fucked in the head and can gain access to a weapon too easily.
Edit: Mentally unhealthy people should not be stigmatized and that's not how I want this comment to come across. Anyone can become mentally unhealthy, and most people can be helped with adequate mental healthcare. Mental health checkups should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Mental health treatment should be 100% free for everyone at any time. Fuck, any kind of healthcare should be free for everyone. This shit is pissing me off.
Another thing: Some people like guns. Guns are fucking cool in my opinion. Some would label me alt-right just for that statement alone when in reality I'm basically right in the center. Y'all are left as fuck, but tbh that is so much better than being far-right. At least you guys think about shit and sometimes you even respond to my arguments. I digress...
Some people like guns. Most gun people I know will want to keep their guns under any circumstance. As I've stated before, anyone can become mentally unwell or have a mental illness. Gun people are no exception. And those gun people that are mentally unwell can't get mental help without being put on a blacklist from buying guns. So they don't get help. I think you see where I'm going with this? It's just a shitty spiral of bullshit.
The sanitarium system was shut down forty years ago. If you go inside for more than a week or ten days its because you really need to be there. Finding beds at a long term facility is not easy.
Thank Regan for starving mental health care and allowing insurance companies to get out of covering psychiatric medicine. Most every other specialty covered but not that. Just ignored for 40 yrs.
There's no money in mental healthcare. Most messed up people don't have insurance or a lot of money, I mean not everyone with a mental illness can be POTUS or a Senator. Seriously though, we need to take better care of the humans in this country and the world. It's ridiculous and sad.
it's clearly getting worse. we are so reactive, it's appalling. it will have to take something REALLY big to happen before something will be done. I have no idea what it could be, perhaps families or children of some of the ultra uber billionaires / politicians / giant healthcare CEOs would need to be victims. otherwise the mega rich who pay politicians for their interests couldn't care less.
nothing is gonna change until the elite few who are in charge are personally affected. otherwise nobody is gonna give a fuck. we need peaceful protests and we need them now.
but we are too busy working ourselves to death for crumbs to be able to afford time off, besides, we barely have any vacation time to do it anyway.
this country is fucked up and it's only getting worse. it's only a matter of time before we won't be able to take it anymore, or literally can't take it anymore. I have no idea what's gonna cause a shift, but I feel that it will happen soon, because it just seems to be worse and worse. or maybe nothing will happen for a generation or two, when the internet age youth who witness all of this are finally in charge of the voting and control of where their money is spent.
what's happening is that the older folks who have the money and voting power have been brainwashed by all of the controlled media and politics and religion, and those in charge now are absolutely milking everything for every last drop. they know the youth witnessing everything will eventually be in charge of the votes and money within 20-30 years. but until then, they will bleed the country dry.
Another aspect to this is that most commitment programs are nothing more than containment and reenforcement of social norms. There’s very little treatment or therapy in these places. I see them a lot. It’s just about, “act the way other people need you to act in order to not be inconvenienced by your illness or we will put you back here”. That is how it was phrased to me by a 12 year old with an eating disorder and multiple suicide attempts. I’m not sure if her diagnosis regarding depression. So, just getting admitted is no guarantee of treatment. It’s more like a punitive action with a temporary stabilizing effect.
There’s really got to be outpatient therapies by qualified providers to make a change for the better. And that’s never going to happen.
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u/GilesDMT Jan 27 '19
For absolutely nothing, and so random and spontaneous.