Schizophrenics aren’t as dangerous as people with some other types of disorders. The trick is, especially with Paranoid Schizophrenics, that they don’t trust others so they don’t accept care. That’s why you see them disproportionately on the streets.
Psychopaths can also have psychotic delusions, but they aren’t paranoid like schizos. A psycho can accept help and it can even feed into his sense of entitlement and his delusions of dominating others, as if he manipulated the helpers. Psychos have a higher tolerance for being in an institution because they think of the other institutionalized people as prey.
So you run a private business, and you aren’t making money because of the high recidivism rates and laws that prevent you from charging for immediate readmission. That’s Obama care but it was bipartisan. Then you have red states and Republican leadership closing the state hospitals due to high costs. So hospitals, a non public entity now have to house this population in an extremely regulated and high cost environment.
These private employers decided they were not going to pay for a public service and I don’t blame them. Imagine if your plumbing business was just told you will eat the costs of poor people who can’t pay because government doesn’t want to provide that service any longer or makes laws like Obama care did?
Plenty of people who have psychotic symptoms can live normal, typical lives. I suffer from a psychotic illness (bipolar with psychotic features) and I have a full time career, I have a social life, I can take care of myself and live on my own. It wasn't always easy for sure, and took years to figure out how to live with this illness, but there are lots of people who take antipsychotics and live a normal life, and you'd never know. When people meet me they'd never know I suffer from paranoid delusions at times unless I were to tell them I deal with such things.
I do believe there should be huge increases in medical care and availability for those who suffer from mental conditions and can't take care of themselves though. There's certainly plenty, and homeless people often do have mental issues that they would need help managing. We should help those who can't take care of themselves, but the power structures currently don't seem too concerned about taking care of such people with dignity at all.
America needs mental institute.
Schizophrenics aren’t as dangerous as people with some other types of disorders. The trick is, especially with Paranoid Schizophrenics, that they don’t trust others so they don’t accept care. That’s why you see them disproportionately on the streets.
Psychopaths can also have psychotic delusions, but they aren’t paranoid like schizos. A psycho can accept help and it can even feed into his sense of entitlement and his delusions of dominating others, as if he manipulated the helpers. Psychos have a higher tolerance for being in an institution because they think of the other institutionalized people as prey.
So you run a private business, and you aren’t making money because of the high recidivism rates and laws that prevent you from charging for immediate readmission. That’s Obama care but it was bipartisan. Then you have red states and Republican leadership closing the state hospitals due to high costs. So hospitals, a non public entity now have to house this population in an extremely regulated and high cost environment.
These private employers decided they were not going to pay for a public service and I don’t blame them. Imagine if your plumbing business was just told you will eat the costs of poor people who can’t pay because government doesn’t want to provide that service any longer or makes laws like Obama care did?
Hit from both sides.
Reagan was the one who killed funding for the mental health institutes of the time and landed loads of vulnerable people out on the street.
Plenty of people who have psychotic symptoms can live normal, typical lives. I suffer from a psychotic illness (bipolar with psychotic features) and I have a full time career, I have a social life, I can take care of myself and live on my own. It wasn't always easy for sure, and took years to figure out how to live with this illness, but there are lots of people who take antipsychotics and live a normal life, and you'd never know. When people meet me they'd never know I suffer from paranoid delusions at times unless I were to tell them I deal with such things.
I do believe there should be huge increases in medical care and availability for those who suffer from mental conditions and can't take care of themselves though. There's certainly plenty, and homeless people often do have mental issues that they would need help managing. We should help those who can't take care of themselves, but the power structures currently don't seem too concerned about taking care of such people with dignity at all.