Right hear me out. Is there any of you that agree we should have modern day asylums for those that don’t want to take medication who will never be able to get off the ■■■■. I can’t see myself making anything out of life as long as i am on medication and i will only cause problems for those around me when i try to go without. A benefit bum is all I ever will be on these meds. Surely people must feel the same way.
Anything, just keep the severely mentally ill out of the prison system
Well yeah well put
You beat me to it, man. My thoughts exactly. Over 400,000 seriously mentally ill are in prison, that is not right. They should be in institutions. Prison will only make them worse.
Not just that… there are some people who have well meaning families with not a clue in the world… or money… or ability to take care of a severally crumbling person.
I read an article about a growing need for long term wellness and mental rehabilitation centers… (yes the pretty way to say asylums)
Some times we need more help then our loved ones can give us…
Group homes are so wide ranged from amazing to bloody horrid…
A hospital (asylum) would hopefully have some level of state licensing and health standard.
I’d say yes… we need to bring back long term care… as long as it’s ethically practiced and regulated…
I would live at a luxury one. if it had doctor, psychiatrist, gym. A nice bed. Good meals.
Okay, here’s my take on things: YES, there should be more asylums, but NO, they should not be there to act as a buffer for prisons. The reason why I advocate for asylums is because of the insurance situations America has gotten itself into. Very short stays to handle a crisis, then discharged to the streets with no follow-up care. That is stupid. Many people cycle in and out of the ER and local in-patient wings, only to repeat the same thing time and time again. More often than not, something gives, and before you know it, the person is in really hot water: homeless, a victim of suicide/homicide, or otherwise placed in a crummy situation. Folks with chronic illness should be taken in by the state and treated in accordance of what their symptoms dictate. Better to live in a hospital than homeless scrounging for food.
What a lot of people don’t realize is prisons and jails administer meds too. Lots of them offer therapies. It is relatively rare that a person is acquitted of charges by virtue of the mental disease or defect verdict. For those folks, there already exists plenty of forensic units.
I think people need to be held accountable for what they do. SZ is NOT a get-out-of-jail-free card. It is a disorder of the brain, not a machine that forces people to do something by virtue of manipulation. In other words, there is not something that MAKES a sz commit crimes. Psychosis means being out of touch with reality. It is NOT an excuse for people to neglect the morals of right and wrong. That is a whole different ballgame.
if it was not for mrs. sith i would either be dead or locked up…
so good , supportive, constructive centres for the mentaly ill are a good idea.
take care
I would personally choose to be in an asylum, if that meant I was not forced to take medicines that I could not tolerate. But the choice is not there.
edit: that was probably not what was meant with the question.
I would rather be in an asylum than homeless or in jail.
From what I understand, those asylums in the past were not good places to be. We have assisted living centers today for the mentally ill where they can stay if they want to. I live in one. Of course, a lot of the mentally ill are kept in prison these days. We need a better place for them than that. Our prisons are like factories that produce sociopaths. If they’re not dangerous when they go in to prison, they are when they come out.
Medication is the best asylum ever made. The chem camisole is the most effective, smartest, easiest to deploy and adjustable solution available. Doesn’t cure, just contains.
They should make a community kinda like a retirement home resort for the mentally ill
My experience in the '90s and early '00s… precisely. But the county contract tanks (“asylums”) are dreadful here. Little better than the state hospitals for the “criminally insane,” though less violent.
I know I’m treading on thin ice here, but one wonders when the more “progressive” states will begin to allow carefully constructed court petitionings and proceedings for those with severe mental illness who want to terminate their suffering.