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Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:01 am to oleyeller
Mental illness is definitely a problem in the world
People still don't believe there are aliens on the moon. Some people don't even believe the moon exists.
People still don't believe there are aliens on the moon. Some people don't even believe the moon exists.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:02 am to When in Rome
Guns make people CrAzY!!!! When you get one you just GOT to kill sumone!!
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:05 am to oleyeller
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naw these people posting like idiots are just trying to be billy bad asses on the internet because they are pussies in real life.. i get their reasons. It makes them feel like they are a hard arse, i get it.
I probably have you mixed up with someone else but I'm pretty sure you post like that all the time
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:29 am to TH03
The drug seeking behavior of those who don't have actual mental illness also causes those who actually have problems to try to hide them. They don't want to be grouped with the drug heads, so it never gets addressed in the right way. "Self-medication" comes in and causes bigger problems.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:43 am to oleyeller
Under Reagan it was deemed that State Run Mental health centers were an unneeded burden to taxpayers. Since then the rates of suicide and homelessness have skyrocketed/.
coincidence?
coincidence?
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:47 am to oleyeller
Agreed. I think that as we cure more diseases, I think we will start to focus more on mental health and depression. It doesn't help when people call people who are depressed and kill themselves cowards. We really need to focus on it more as a society.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:47 am to UFownstSECsince1950
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Tldr....the pussification of America grows
Just fricking ignorant
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:48 am to Napoleon
quote:yes. reagan is a god. best president evar.
coincidence?
This post was edited on 8/12/14 at 10:50 am
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:49 am to oleyeller
I have struggled with depression too and considered suicide. People need to understand and reah out. Even a smile can go a long way.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:51 am to SaintSquad10
I really liked this paragraph:
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Mental Health is a major problem in this country, they are constantly cutting funding and pushing it to the back burner of budgets. But when something major happens and some "crazy" person shoots up a school they want to blame guns, or video games.. instead of looking for mental illness and trying to give people a better understanding of mental illness and help fund treatment for patients.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 10:54 am to oleyeller
It's amazing how the general public seems to look at mental health problems with disdain, a failure, yet mental health problems plague the wealthy and successful as well, perhaps even acting as a driving force in some cases.
I've worked with many that were at the relative top of their industry yet seemed to have some pretty serious issues, eg, bipolar, manic, paranoia. I'm sure most in the legal practice would agree.
I've worked with many that were at the relative top of their industry yet seemed to have some pretty serious issues, eg, bipolar, manic, paranoia. I'm sure most in the legal practice would agree.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 11:00 am to USMCTiger03
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It's amazing how the general public seems to look at mental health problems with disdain, a failure, yet mental health problems plague the wealthy and successful as well, perhaps even acting as a driving force in some cases.
You're right. It really is amazing. Equally are those who tell people they just need to suck it up and get tough. I really believe that's driven by fear of something that may actually be out of their control in life, and truly, only the young and/or inexperienced in general still think they control everything.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 11:07 am to Napoleon
quote:links?
Under Reagan it was deemed that State Run Mental health centers were an unneeded burden to taxpayers. Since then the rates of suicide and homelessness have skyrocketed/.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 11:16 am to tgrbaitn08
1980
President Jimmy Carter signs the Mental Health Systems Act, which aims to restructure the community mental-health-center program and improve services for people with chronic mental illness.
1981
Under President Ronald Reagan, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repeals Carter's community health legislation and establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government's role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreases by 30 percent.
1984
An Ohio-based study finds that up to 30 percent of homeless people are thought to suffer from serious mental illness.
1985
Federal funding drops to 11 percent of community mental-health agency budgets.
1990
Clozapine, the first "atypical" antipsychotic drug to be developed, is approved by the FDA as a treatment for schizophrenia.
2004
Studies suggest approximately 16 percent of prison and jail inmates are seriously mentally ill, roughly 320,000 people. This year, there are about 100,000 psychiatric beds in public and private hospitals. That means there are more three times as many seriously mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals.
2009
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, states are forced to cut $4.35 billion in public mental-health spending over the next three years, the largest reduction in funding since deinstitutionalization.
2010
There are 43,000 psychiatric beds in the United States, or about 14 beds per 100,000 people—the same ratio as in 1850
President Jimmy Carter signs the Mental Health Systems Act, which aims to restructure the community mental-health-center program and improve services for people with chronic mental illness.
1981
Under President Ronald Reagan, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repeals Carter's community health legislation and establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government's role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreases by 30 percent.
1984
An Ohio-based study finds that up to 30 percent of homeless people are thought to suffer from serious mental illness.
1985
Federal funding drops to 11 percent of community mental-health agency budgets.
1990
Clozapine, the first "atypical" antipsychotic drug to be developed, is approved by the FDA as a treatment for schizophrenia.
2004
Studies suggest approximately 16 percent of prison and jail inmates are seriously mentally ill, roughly 320,000 people. This year, there are about 100,000 psychiatric beds in public and private hospitals. That means there are more three times as many seriously mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals.
2009
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, states are forced to cut $4.35 billion in public mental-health spending over the next three years, the largest reduction in funding since deinstitutionalization.
2010
There are 43,000 psychiatric beds in the United States, or about 14 beds per 100,000 people—the same ratio as in 1850
Posted on 8/12/14 at 11:21 am to tgrbaitn08
quote:Deinstitutionalizing was happening before Reagan. He didn't help it but he didn't start it either.
By the time Ronald Reagan assumed the governorship in 1967, California had already deinstitutionalized more than half of its state hospital patients. That same year, California passed the landmark Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act, which virtually abolished involuntary hospitalization except in extreme cases. Thus, by the early 1970s California had moved most mentally ill patients out of its state hospitals and, by passing LPS, had made it very difficult to get them back into a hospital if they relapsed and needed additional care. California thus became a canary in the coal mine of deinstitutionalization.
The slashing of the MHSA definitely hurt mental health care in the country. He basically tried to pawn it off onto the states who were ill equipped to handle it. They thought people would be able to turn it into money making opportunities for hospitals and clinics but who wants to open up and run mental health care facilities without government help? No one.
This post was edited on 8/12/14 at 11:28 am
Posted on 8/12/14 at 11:22 am to oleyeller
Great post.
Posted on 8/12/14 at 11:22 am to oleyeller
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I would like to start off by saying i am not a doctor
this is where I stopped. what about anyone else?
Posted on 8/12/14 at 11:22 am to oleyeller
I agree with your entire post, and have just recently noticed how little most people actually know about mental health issues or depression.
My fiance recently had someone at her school (administrator) commit suicide. She kept saying things like "but he was happily married!" and "he had everything: why would he do this?". I tried explaining to her that mental illness is a much deeper problem than "oh work sucks" or "me and my wife had a disagreement", but it fell on deaf ears. Really was an eye-opening experience for me seeing how little most people know about mental illness.
My fiance recently had someone at her school (administrator) commit suicide. She kept saying things like "but he was happily married!" and "he had everything: why would he do this?". I tried explaining to her that mental illness is a much deeper problem than "oh work sucks" or "me and my wife had a disagreement", but it fell on deaf ears. Really was an eye-opening experience for me seeing how little most people know about mental illness.
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