Re:It's Time to Mandate Treatment of the Dangerously Mentall...
by denton-scratch on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:22PM
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> There still is a system to institutionalize people
why are we talking of "institutionalizing" people? Compulsory treatment of someone experiencing an episode involves depriving them of liberty, while staff ensure they take their drugs, and doctors monitor their effects. Institutionalization generally means that you've been incarcerated so long that the institution is now your home, and it would be a struggle to live back in the world. Institutionalization was a large part of the problem with the old asylums.
At least one mentally-ill person I've known had been taken off the street several times; she was bitterly critical of the abolition of the psychiatric hospitals.
why are we talking of "institutionalizing" people? Compulsory treatment of someone experiencing an episode involves depriving them of liberty, while staff ensure they take their drugs, and doctors monitor their effects. Institutionalization generally means that you've been incarcerated so long that the institution is now your home, and it would be a struggle to live back in the world. Institutionalization was a large part of the problem with the old asylums.
At least one mentally-ill person I've known had been taken off the street several times; she was bitterly critical of the abolition of the psychiatric hospitals.