[HN Gopher] Tales from an Attic
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Tales from an Attic
Author : lobbly
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-04-28 15:33 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| Animats wrote:
| That's how homeless crazies used to be warehoused.
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| Was that better or worse than them living on the street?
| buildsjets wrote:
| The article leads off with: "Frank C., a U.S. Army veteran, was
| admitted to Willard in 1946, at the age of 35. Following a
| single outburst at a restaurant in Flatbush, Brooklyn, he was
| diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia."
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| Army vet, likely suffering from PTSD, gets involuntarily
| committed after a single incident in a restaurant. An injured
| soldier who had a bad day, not a homeless crazy.
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| Surely there a better third solution available here, somewhere
| between being involuntarily committed after being injured in
| service of your country, and being abandoned on the street
| after being injured in service of your country?
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| The problem is that the Community Mental Health Act closed the
| giant asylums without actually providing the funding for the
| promised local mental health treatment centers. So instead
| treating people in any way, we abandon them on the streets.
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| What would have been cheaper, funding the community mental
| health treatment centers by paying higher taxes, or dealing the
| the societal costs of widespread homelessness, unemployment,
| and substance abuse?
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Mental_Health_Act
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