Never underestimate the ability of an insane person to tear apart their own families. The reason that so many of the insane are wandering the streets is that their families had no choice but to kick them out.
I don’t but I fail to see where it should be a taxpayer problem. They are REMOVED from any emotion towards the victim.
It is not a free choice, they are near collapse, physically, emotionally, and financially. Often the mentally ill person is either nearly catatonic from drugs and depression, so must be cared for continually, fed, and cleaned, yet unable to respond. Or else they reject their drugs because of the painful side effects, and are incoherent, menacing, intensely paranoid and lash out unpredictably causing damage and injury to themselves and others.
All the more reason to have FAMILY handle this.
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Everybody wants to help them, but nobody has any ideas.
No. No one wants to be bothered. It should be FAMILY.
Obviously the government solution isn’t working either. This must be forced onto family or perhaps churches.
“This must be forced onto family or perhaps churches.”
So you think churches can take care of the seriously mentally ill? And they should be forced to do so?
Gimmee a break.
I don’t but I fail to see where it should be a taxpayer problem. They are REMOVED from any emotion towards the victim.
If you are saying taht family should be involved in the care of the mentally ill, that could be true, if the mentally ill would let them. You misunderstand the basis of the problem. These people when psychotic are so adversive that mother will turn out child, and voluteers will run away. they are medicated to sleepiness because that is all that some of them can manage sucessfully. And they often dont take their medications without an instituional boatload of assistance from technicians.
If you try to force them on their family, there won’t be any family to force them on to. Even the strongest of families can only take so much. They force out the insane member because it is either “them or us”, literally a life or death problem. This is not some casual “lifestyle choice.”
What would you have them do? Chain them up, or kill them?
Call up the police and have them chain them up, or kill them?
Even Bedlam hospital, whose name is still synonymous with the cruel treatment of the insane, and one of the first mental hospitals of Europe, was created because neither family nor society could deal with the insane in any other way than killing them.
Sorry, “one word solutions” don’t work, unless that word is “kill”.