Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: heartwood

My nephew is a paramedic for the city of New Orleans. I have heard graphic detail of more horror stories than I could have ever imagined. He has been bitten(requiring AIDS tests and innoculations), spat upon, puked on and wrestled with. He’s a big guy and he is expected to ‘help’ people who fight him. There are mental patients galore who are like wild people. Restraints don’t always work. Just last year a teen mental patient was being transported to a medical appointment, and he was put in a ‘regular’ car, so as not to make him ‘feel different’. He jumped out of the car on the interstate and was hit and killed by a truck. I guess he ‘felt normal’ right up till impact, and that’s what matters.
New Orleans is full of mental patients, add 24 hour booze to the mix and calls like this are normal here. The cops and EMT’s are acting as psychiatric workers. It’s hard to have pity and patience when viscious, biting,kicking out-of-control people can fight off three big men. There should be a way to restrain them that protects the law officers and medical personnel. A net gun that can trap and immobilize wild animals comes to mind.They could then be scooped up, screaming and kicking in the net, to be plopped in a secure vehicle. Hand to hand with a mental patient NEVER ends well, and it should be unnecessary.

These mental patients are being protected by a society they are damaging. Your boss and his wife are dead...where is the son now? Institutionalized or being ‘cared for’ by some foster family? If he had been in a professionally controlled environment, his parents wouldn’t be dead. Same for the Newton shooter. To protect HIS rights, all those children are dead.
If I had a child I knew to be dangerous to myself or others, I WOULD find a facility, or-at the very least- make a room in my home into one! Restraints are better than death-theirs or mine.
These things happen because too many parents, and others, think that TREATING schizophrenics normally will MAKE them normal. They are self-deluded, right up to the time the individual is killing them, or they see the violence needed to stop them.


50 posted on 01/08/2014 10:28:02 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies ]


To: ClearBlueSky

The mental patients are NOT being protected by society.

The left-wing civil libertarians think even incompetent, delusional people, or people who are only temporarily stabilized and repeatedly relapse, have the right to make decisions regarding their treatment, medications, and movement. So they have liberties in a trade-off that puts them deeper into mental illness, homelessness, exposure, physical illness, being the victims of abuse and crime and committing crimes themselves.

The budget-cutters go along with the idea that “community health” settings can treat the most severely mentally ill, and pretend to believe the drugs we have now have have eliminated the need for nearly all of the hospital beds and secure facilities that used to exist. The son of the Virginia congressman who stabbed his father and killed himself had been evaluated, declared in need of treatment, and released from a hospital the day before for lack of space.

My boss and her husband loved their son so much. They tried so hard. Yes, they tried to treat him normally; they gave him a job and a car and a home but they had no way to force him to take his medication and go to treatment; he was an adult. So normality was the only thing they could offer him to try to keep him on an even keel.

They had money and they knew the health care system. The healthcare system and the legal system failed them and their son. NOW he is in a secure facility for the rest of his life, still with the right to refuse drug treatment, and still refusing.


52 posted on 01/08/2014 11:06:19 AM PST by heartwood
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson