Then we wonder why progress is so slow.
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Yep I’ve given presentations on it before…something that affects so many people shouldn’t be so poorly funded…stigma…
I would never donate to any organisation like those. Big Pharma is where the results come from. They’re self funding through big profits. And very motivated by those same profits.
All other organisations looking for money are scams in my opinion.
So what you are basically accusing me of is posting scam sites. I thought you knew me better than that @everhopeful . Those aren’t scam organisations.
It is perhaps no wonder mental health research is seriously underfunded if attitudes like yours are prevalent.
Nobody blames a person for getting cancer. I think people see mental illness as weak character or something that they can fix. We know that’s not true. You don’t see people begging on the streets because they have cancer but you see mentally ill people all the time. The sad thing about schizophrenia is it hits at the time you are supposed to start your career and life. I’ve been doing nothing except suffering since 2011.
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That’s kind true. People see mental diseases as a weakness.
They see it as weakness and they see the mentally ill as dangerous. Why would they give funds to help people they think might commit serious crimes?
I think part of it is most people are afraid they will get cancer. But very few people are afraid they will become mentally ill.
I don’t have data, but I believe the Los Angeles Department of Corrections is the largest de facto psychiatric hospital in the United States.
Not only is this a penny-wise-and-dollar-foolish approach to mental healthcare, but a violation of human rights.
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There are rules and regulations about use of restraints in a mental health setting in the US.
Those rules came years too late for me as restraints were applied on me for no reason and I was left there, completly immobilized in darkness for many hours, in '95.
But the kicker and point of this post-almost the exact same rules and regulations passed for treatment of MI in the 2000’s- was passed for Seniors in retirement homes in 1984.
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I think that my father said that brain research is a very active area of research,
and it will have a bearing on mental health as well.
I’m sorry that happened to you. I’ve never been in a restraint chair, but I’ve seen them used many times. Whatever rules and regulations exist pertaining to the use of the restraint chair seemed lost on me. The restraint chair was used arbitrarily as far as I could tell.
What is clear is that nobody really knows what transpires behind the walls of a psychiatric hospital. There seems to be to be no oversight (with teeth at least) and no transparency.
This must end.
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Thank you, kindness. I think it was more of gourney with a series of belts though. Believe it or not it happened in a behavioral ward. So much of what happened there was bizarre and/or unacceptable.
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I was going to write a long reply, but I’ll simply say this: If you’re not crazy when you come in you’re crazy when you go out.
Sad but true.
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That experience was terrible. I have to say with all the others I was treated humanely.
The bad thing about those was mainly boredom.
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