Will we see involuntary confinement return, and what does that mean for mental health services grant writers?
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The Atlantic has a long book excerpt titled “American Madness: Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.” The story is about a brilliant man named Michael Laudor, who was also a schizophrenic and as a consequence of schizophrenia killed his pregnant fiancee while in the grips of delusion. The story is partially about what the author, Jonathan Rosen, calls “the wreckage of deinstitutionalization, a movement born out of a belief in the 1950s and ’60s that new medication along with outpatient care could empty the sprawling state hospitals.” Rosen says that:
During the revolutions of the ’60s, institutions were easier to tear down than to reform, and the idea of asylum for the most afflicted got lost along with the idea that severe psychiatric disorders are biological conditions requiring medical care. For many psychiatrists of the era, mental illness was caused by environmental disturbances that could be repaired by treating society itself as the patient
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1yAre we really help those that are ill when we institutionalized mass groups of people we a neglecting their rights as individuals and these types of institutions aften ate mismanaged. Medication leads to abuse both by the patient and those who administer it. We need better control and commitment to the problem and its cause. Often its crystal clear but nobody is listening or even cares.
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