How do you feel the United states should deal with it's mental health crisis?
Bc people be sad
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People with severe mental health issues can be suffering from a wide variety of mental diseases, not just depression from current events.
As a former worker in a homeless shelter, I can tell you we had a wide range of diseases in treatment among our residents. Bi-polar disease, which can include deep bi-polar depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, psychosis induced by drugs, and on and on. One of my jobs during that time was to administer medications.
One of the themes running through the various mental diseases is that the medications used to treat them often have miserable side effects. Nausea, dizziness, feelings of distance from reality, absence of sexual feeling, and on and on. THAT is why the mentally ill turn to opioids and other illegal drugs, and almost always turn to alcohol as well. They are self-medicating their own diseases with drugs that don't make them feel bad. The illegal drugs actually make people feel good for a short time, as does alcohol, for a short time. Unfortunately, in the long term, both legal and illegal medications will shorten your life....the illegal ones and alcohol will shorten it more quickly.
Because of the above, people with mental diseases don't want to come in to homeless shelters or institutions for treatment. They know what drugs they will be given, and they know they will feel ill or zombie-like if they are made to take those drugs.
If people with mental health issues stay out of institutions on their own, they ALWAYS discontinue the medications that have such miserable side effects and can't feel good at all unless they become alcoholics or drug addicts.
The only way to deal with all this medicating and self medicating is to take the severely mentally ill and the dangerous in to custody and have them committed through the courts.
As a former worker in a homeless shelter, I can tell you we had a wide range of diseases in treatment among our residents. Bi-polar disease, which can include deep bi-polar depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, psychosis induced by drugs, and on and on. One of my jobs during that time was to administer medications.
One of the themes running through the various mental diseases is that the medications used to treat them often have miserable side effects. Nausea, dizziness, feelings of distance from reality, absence of sexual feeling, and on and on. THAT is why the mentally ill turn to opioids and other illegal drugs, and almost always turn to alcohol as well. They are self-medicating their own diseases with drugs that don't make them feel bad. The illegal drugs actually make people feel good for a short time, as does alcohol, for a short time. Unfortunately, in the long term, both legal and illegal medications will shorten your life....the illegal ones and alcohol will shorten it more quickly.
Because of the above, people with mental diseases don't want to come in to homeless shelters or institutions for treatment. They know what drugs they will be given, and they know they will feel ill or zombie-like if they are made to take those drugs.
If people with mental health issues stay out of institutions on their own, they ALWAYS discontinue the medications that have such miserable side effects and can't feel good at all unless they become alcoholics or drug addicts.
The only way to deal with all this medicating and self medicating is to take the severely mentally ill and the dangerous in to custody and have them committed through the courts.