Posted on 01/10/2011 2:43:47 PM PST by Kaslin
One of the things that I did not like from Reagan is he cut the final funding to these hospitals. The flood of crazys has been unrelenting ever since.
Why would that be a federal funding issue?
The little bit I’ve heard about Loughner’s parents, especially his father, seems to indicate that the young man is not the only one in his family who has mental health issues.
The mentally ill are treatable. Sociopaths aren’t.
Maybe now is a good time to retry getting your book published. I said on another thread how it’s interesting
that the parents haven’t come forward to apologize for
their son’s behavior, which is usually the good and heartfelt thing to do. But, I think they have been told
to keep it quite, to not mention all the problems that
they have had trying to get help for their son. The Mental
Health issues are a big problem in our society. The ACLU
comes in and tells these nuts they can get out, nothing
wrong with them, its everybody else...
I was introduced to someone’s boyfriend last summer; the guy could easily become one of those written about in this book. He had a story about being in the Army and being sent to Korea. Since he was doing intelligence, he was locked up in a cage while on duty; off duty, shady Koreans followed him around and would have killed him for spying, except that he had friends who protected him. He now gets a disability pension from the Army—I wonder why (I ask rhetorically)? Someone who is that delusional should be confined in a hospital. Talking to him, I got a strong feeling that the best place to be is somewhere far away from him—he’s creepy.
I have a friend whose mother is schizophrenic and has been taking drugs that poorly control it for years. This woman, whom I’ve known for most of my life, however, is not dangerous. She lives alone but my friend checks on her and talks to her every day.
btt
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