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Paranoid schizophrenic attacks medical student with a box cutter
Posted on 7/9/18 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 7/9/18 at 8:33 pm
Disturbing and sad news report from Erie, Pennsylvania....
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Steveland Robinson is accused of cutting a 21-year-old LECOM student’s throat outside a Peach Street Walgreens on Tuesday.
The 30-year-old man accused of cutting a young woman’s throat with a box cutter on Tuesday has a history of severe mental illness that stretches back to when he was 14 years old.
The bizarre and sometimes violent behavior of the defendant, Steveland E. Robinson, brought him into contact with the criminal justice system repeatedly over the past decade, including two cases in which he was initially found incompetent to stand trial.
Robinson has undergone “innumerable hospitalizations” for mental-health issues, according to a 2016 psychological evaluation included with court filings in his previous cases.
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Erie Police Chief Dan Spizarny said Thursday that the victim, a student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, is in stable condition at UPMC Hamot but remains in the intensive care unit.
This post was edited on 7/9/18 at 8:35 pm
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Posted on 7/9/18 at 8:37 pm to dewster
Fn justice system is a joke in this country. If he’s incompetent to stand trial but has a violent past, institutionalize him until he’s no longer a threat to society. Instead, he will be free again in no time
This post was edited on 7/9/18 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 7/9/18 at 8:46 pm to Ba Ba Boooey
We have a serious mental health issue in this country.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 8:51 pm to dewster
Didn't I just read something about cutting funding for treatment of the mentally ill?....
Posted on 7/9/18 at 9:01 pm to Spankum
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Didn't I just read something about cutting funding for treatment of the mentally ill?....
happens every year, always the first in budget cuts. I have worked for the state if MS in mental health for 8 years. And every year we are cut mote and more. Many facilities that are state funded have shut down. They are trying to make it sound good like they are moving to community based programs.... those are great too, but are not for everyone. Our place is court ordered, when our clients come in the police officers are so happy to get them to us because they have no idea how to deal with them. they are not trained in that.. So once they keep cutting the budgets enough where most all these places are shut down, then these people get arrested, they will be sent to jail just to make them worse off than before just to be released back into society with ZERO treatment. its a bad combination, and sad state for our country.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 9:17 pm to dewster
It’s not just the funding cuts that hurt.
It’s the laws that keep getting passed that “protect the rights” of the mentally ill over the rights of the general public safety.
We need to bring back lifelong asylums with better living conditions.
It’s the laws that keep getting passed that “protect the rights” of the mentally ill over the rights of the general public safety.
We need to bring back lifelong asylums with better living conditions.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 9:20 pm to Spankum
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Didn't I just read something about cutting funding for treatment of the mentally ill?....
Welcome to the 80's.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 9:44 pm to dewster
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Steveland
? wtf
Posted on 7/9/18 at 9:53 pm to dewster
Erie gonna Eerie
They should be a branch office of Florida.
They should be a branch office of Florida.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 9:55 pm to Ba Ba Boooey
Can’t institutionalize them anymore that has a negative stigma to it! So I have been told
Posted on 7/9/18 at 9:57 pm to SECdragonmaster
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It’s not just the funding cuts that hurt.
No shite. The throat cuts are much worse.
Too soon?
Posted on 7/9/18 at 10:08 pm to dewster
There is no where to house the mentally ill long term. Although the vast majority are harmless, some are not and there is no where for them to go.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 10:12 pm to oleyeller
100% agree. Outpatient programs are fine. However there are people that are so ill that they really can’t function in society and that’s where the State Institutions come into play.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 10:28 pm to oleyeller
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I have worked for the state if MS in mental health for 8 years. And every year we are cut mote and more.
Yep. The government social programs that are actually useful, like mental health and child protection services, are overwhelmed, funded with peanuts, and in just a pitiful situation.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 10:36 pm to dewster
One of, if not the most difficult disorder to treat. Fortunately, not as common as one might think. Particularly difficult if command hallucinations are present.
Can't speak for other States but inpatient beds are not and have not kept pace with population growth in Texas. Further, beds are becoming more occupied by persons on forensic rather than civil commitments.
Outpatient treatment is real fine for the majority of persons with mental illness. Persons with chronic and persistent mental illness require considerable support and this is not the typical pattern on an outpatient basis. We tend to rely on medications and are lean on supportive housing, employment and recreation.
Long term hospitalization is not inhumane as some have made it out to be, particularly rights advocates. It can be most beneficial as long as due process is emphasized as much as individualized treatment is. Being expelled from society is no small matter but can be very humane if properly approached.
Can't speak for other States but inpatient beds are not and have not kept pace with population growth in Texas. Further, beds are becoming more occupied by persons on forensic rather than civil commitments.
Outpatient treatment is real fine for the majority of persons with mental illness. Persons with chronic and persistent mental illness require considerable support and this is not the typical pattern on an outpatient basis. We tend to rely on medications and are lean on supportive housing, employment and recreation.
Long term hospitalization is not inhumane as some have made it out to be, particularly rights advocates. It can be most beneficial as long as due process is emphasized as much as individualized treatment is. Being expelled from society is no small matter but can be very humane if properly approached.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 11:08 pm to wfallstiger
Some people call it a box-cutter; I like to call it a Kaiser cutter.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 11:17 pm to dewster
Ban box cutters.
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