Hollywood smeared the mental health industry with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and within 15 years the institution system was being dismantled Politicians didn't want to pay for it People lost jobs Patients lost care facilities And many were forced out on the street
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My father and grandmother both spent their careers working in mental health Their service to the community, even in austere conditions has always had a deep influence on me And if you're wondering, my mom also works in healthcare, developing medicines
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"Are you talking about more government programs, Poso?" Not specifically But this is an area where the concept of institutionalization itself needs to be rehabilitated in order to restore its much-needed role in public health
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In a majority of the cases, the homelessness crisis is a mental health crisis
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Props 47, 57, and AB109 created the crisis as we know it today. We had problems to deal with such issues in the county jail system. But AB109 put violent felons into the jail system, which overwhelmed those programs.
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Just look at the streets of San Francisco.
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Government isn't the solution.
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Completely agree
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If the left "fixes" it, it will involve forced injection of everyone who disagrees
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Yes good idea because many on the DemocratLeft side say it was President Reagan.
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Mental health isn't stigmatized anymore and is in fact celebrated and flaunted in the hierarchy of victimhood
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