35.5% of Disability Beneficiaries Have ‘Mental Disorder’; 43.2% in D.C.

Cybercast News Service ^ | January 28, 2014 - 2:07 PM | Ali Meyer

[overtaxedindc]

Interesting that the most frequent diagnoses are also the ones hardest to disprove with real facts...

[Count of Monte Fisto]

You can’t collect the check or cash it....unless you enter a government-approved facility, and live within its gates.

The facility should be on a nice island in the South Pacific.

Most of the "mentally illness" you find on the streets these days is a combination of stupidity, laziness, and drug abuse.

These are the same types of people European explores found living in mud huts, practicing voodoo and eating other people. If they didn't receive handouts and government checks this is exactly the state they would regress to.

Sure there are genuinely ill people that should be institutionalized and cared for but there are a lot of other people that just don't have the capacity to function in an advanced First World civilization.

[grania]

or does a decades-long use of these types of drugs cause a person to mentally degenerate?

Why wouldn't it? It's both behavoral and physical deficiencies catching up with them.

[wildbill]

People are being tutored in how to get disability payments and mental claims are the easiest to fake.

[Gritty]

Most of them are "disabled" voluntarily because of their past or current drug use. A lot of that group are frauds and just lazy and playing the system, but a goodly number are really mentally damaged.

Either way, it is demonic what is going on and WE are paying for it.

[crazycatlady]

I certainly acknowledge that there are people whose mental illness renders them disabled. Some have been in my own family. I was just offering an explanation for the spike in numbers, and it looks like a lot of you agree. And so much PTSD in people who probably aren’t combat veterans seems curious to me.
On a related note John Carlson interviewed a couple on his show yesterday who are working to change the involuntary commitment laws in WA. Their adult son was killed by police during one of his manic episodes. In this area since the 90s we have had case after case of untreated mental patients commiting crimes, sometimes multiple murders. Time after time parents and families express their frustration with the laws. According to this couple, AZ has easier commitment laws. I realize that there are no easy answers and people are justifiably worried about abuses. But the body count is getting high, not to mention other quality of life issues—many homeless on Seattles streets are actually mentally ill and there are untold costs having this many people sleeping, panhandling, defecating, etc. in parks and bus shelters. This is what I mean when I say that the mental health system is BROKEN.