Psychiatric care for poor people

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no.

Or, let me put it this way. Whether it would or not, frick that idea

no, I doubt violent crime would decrease that much.

however, it would probably reduce property crimes.

No

Availability and actually having someone use it are two different things as well.

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Do you think gang violence and other violence would decrease among the poor population if low income people had access to psychiatric care subsidies? As of now, I don't think the market price for a psychologist allows for poor people to seek care

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No. It is not a mental health problem, it's a cultural problem. The problem is that a lot of these poor people who are prone to violence have grown up in a culture that scorns education and 9-5 jobs and glorifies sex, violence, and making easy money. I'm not just talking about tv, movies and video games either. I'm also talking about what the environment they grow up in (family and the neighborhood they grow up in).

I'm the last person who will ever start pushing for more government control over media (tv, movies, and video games), so real change has to start in the home. Unfortunately, there will always be a segment of the population that is poor, dumb, and violent. It is up to the individuals to raise their children in an environment that reinforces the importance of getting a good education, turning that into a good career, and respecting other people.

One of the biggest things is that they grow up understanding that they and they alone are responsible for their own success and failures. This whole idea that every problem you have ever encountered is somebody else fault or the fault of people who have been dead since long before you were ever born is part of the problem. We improve ourselves and our lives by recognising our faults and correcting them. If nothing is ever our fault then there is nothing to improve on.

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No. It is not a mental health problem, it's a cultural problem. The problem is that a lot of these poor people who are prone to violence have grown up in a culture that scorns education and 9-5 jobs and glorifies sex, violence, and making easy money. I'm not just talking about tv, movies and video games either. I'm also talking about what the environment they grow up in (family and the neighborhood they grow up in).

I'm the last person who will ever start pushing for more government control over media (tv, movies, and video games), so real change has to start in the home. Unfortunately, there will always be a segment of the population that is poor, dumb, and violent. It is up to the individuals to raise their children in an environment that reinforces the importance of getting a good education, turning that into a good career, and respecting other people.

One of the biggest things is that they grow up understanding that they and they alone are responsible for their own success and failures. This whole idea that every problem you have ever encountered is somebody else fault or the fault of people who have been dead since long before you were ever born is part of the problem. We improve ourselves and our lives by recognising our faults and correcting them. If nothing is ever our fault then there is nothing to improve on.

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Unfortunately, by the time the problems attendant with growing up in such dysfunctional circumtances manifest, it's generally too late for cultural remedies and psychiatric intervention is all that's left.

Otherwise, I completely agree with you. I just don't see how we can afford to do nothing. Even if we can't fix these people, maybe we can make them "act right" to the extent that they can function in society.

No. I don't believe it would have any impact at all.

condoms and birth control are free at the Health Dept for the poor. They aren't using any of that shite.

They don't want free things that are good for them.

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How do you go about fixing it though? Some of them do have legitimate mental health problems that can be helped through psychiatric help. However, for the ones who act that way because of the environment they grew in, I don't see how sending them into a nice building to let a well dressed person tell them what they are doing wrong in their life will solve anything. Remember, a lot of these people grew up scorning success and money made the right way. They grew up being told that everybody else's success was built at your expense. They aren't going to listen to somebody they despise on principle.

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I have seen very few career criminals that were mental cases. There are a number of mental folks wandering around the streets of our state but they are not the ones committing the bulk of crime.