The US is a cruel society in many ways, but one of the worst is that we refuse mental health care to so many individuals who desperately need it.
#Compassion
"broken" in this society means that you have difficulty functioning in the ways that our society rewards. the cruelest part of American society is how bad it is at putting up with people who don't naturally feel comfortable in the mainstream socially accepted paths.
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mental health care, such as it is, often means getting a person to be more functional in terms of mainstream socially promoted life choices. this isn't terrible, actually, but it is limiting. where does healing of the mind and spirit begin? probably not there, in my opinion.
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I do wonder what a truly compassionate and humane society would do with people experiencing mental states that cause suffering. I'm a bit disappointed in my own inability to imagine a better world in this respect.
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Minimally, it wouldn't leave them insane and screaming in the streets with no health care to be abused, preyed upon, and potentially violently assaulted.
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that's what it wouldn't do. what _would_ it do with/for those people?
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Smarter people than me need to figure that out.
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