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- Apr 4, 2021
It's almost impossible to institutionalize adults. You typically can't even make them go to the hospital for a short stay unless they've actively tried to an hero. As frustrating as it is to see severally mentally ill walking around harming themselves it's really a good thing that you can't just stuff inconvenient people into group homes, many of which were inhumanely bad for the people in them.how are these mentally deranged people even allowed to access twitter? I thought they people/parents usually throw them in asylums after the first couple of suicide attempts or atleast control what they do
Even today hospitals aren't all cushy places to get a handle on your crisis. When I was in the hospital I heard stories about our local public-gotta-take-everyone hospital that would curl your hair. For example it was common to have more people in the ward than there are beds for them to sleep in. They also took the real head cases, the ones prone to violence. Even in my cushy hospital we had a violent and creepy patient who was eventually transfered to that public hospital I just mentioned and a loud verbally abusive meltdown for cigarettes from a non-violent patient at the nurses desk at midnight one night, waking us all up.
It's a tough road to walk and there just aren't enough services and hospitals and doctors to treat all the people who want help, let alone the people who don't.