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Originally Posted by bhlloy
Nobody is saying that they should be locked up 24/7 and we should go back to mental asylums, are they?
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That's the rub, isn't it? Though I'm certainly one of the folks who will happily place blame for our mental health crisis at the feet of the GOP, when we were institutionalizing the mentally ill they weren't getting treated any better, so much as they were just out of sight.
I think we probably
do have a significant amount of people that require 24/7 mental health care, and the unfortunate truth is that we've never had any grasp on how to deal with those folks. Throwing them to the streets isn't working for anybody (Portland is rife with homeless folks. I probably walk by/over 3 dozen people sleeping on the sidewalk every morning, without exaggeration), and straight-jackets and padded walls have proven to be no solution either.