re: Trump Announces Reopening Mental Institutions Labeling Their Closure a Catastrophic mistak

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Like I said, I would love to reverse the shutting down of mental health facilities under Reagan

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Wrong.
Deinstitutionalization began with court cases in the 1960s. Big push towards community treatment during that decade by the Left.

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Pray and ask the Lord to help you through those tough times

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And when the band you’re in starts playing different tunes, I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon…

That's the treatment, along with lithium and antiseizure meds.

While I can't stand Trump. This, I actually agree with. The privatization of mental health care is part of the community degradation that was set off by major homelessness. As someone who has worked in these institutions both state and private, its simply an overlooked necessity. It shouldn't be an easy thing to take someone's rights for their own, if not for the protection of others, but it should be easier than it is. The common sense balance has gone by the wayside and way too many are given the right to just wander when they truly need locked down help.

I have seen that environment be therapeutic and rehabilitative mentally for a number people. Just need the right people overseeing this for the right reasons but it needs to be done.

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I hope they do this for nursing homes too...they are in a terrible state giving psychotropics to the elderly to keep them docile and then when their friends and family come to visit and the dosage isn't quite right (which it commonly isn't) they think grandma/pa have lost it when in reality it's the drugs.

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I agree with you more than you know. Suing one RIGHT NOW! Been nothing but Russian Doll Game with ownership.

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Massively support this.

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Same.

Reagan fricked up when he closed the majority of nuthouses

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Does your local news have a problem solvers team? If not, try to meet others who have loved ones in the same place and possibly file a class action suit?

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Finally got through to the actual owners after about 2 years and then another year and a half of the medical review board dragging arse. Into full on litigation finally.

Facebook about to go silent lol.....

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I'm pissed to just learn he didn't say this now or recently, but 2018. When Pam Bondi was in the oval as friggin Florida AG after Parkland. So, while it's a great idea, it was in 2018 as well.

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EO signed last august:

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Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.

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Restoring Civil Commitment.

(a) The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall take appropriate action to:

(i) seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States' policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time; and

(ii) provide assistance to State and local governments, through technical guidance, grants, or other legally available means, for the identification, adoption, and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment, institutional treatment, and “step-down” treatment standards that allow for the appropriate commitment and treatment of individuals with mental illness who pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.

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https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/29/2025-14391/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets