Congrats! This is certainly the most ironic thread title that I have ever seen!
Greg wrote:
New York City has many homeless people.
Back in the day, these folks would get sent upstate to mental hospitals.
How things have changed. In the United States, the mentally ill are generally not forced into any type of treatment until the enter the criminal justice system. Most refuse medication for a variety of reasons. Unless a mentally ill person is deemed a threat to society, the person is left to his or her own devices.
One can voluntarily seek treatment, but the threshold for mandated treatment is very high. Unfortunately, the abuses within the previous format ruined America's appetite for more compulsory treatment. America seems to now prefer allowing the nonviolent, less anti-social, mentally ill to self medicate with drugs and alcohol, while incarcerating violent offenders. Love it or hate it, that's the way the United States handles mental health.
As an untrained civilian, approach a mentally ill person at your own peril. You can't save this person. Interact with an unstable individual and it could turn violent rather quickly. I think you will also find that it can be hard to hold down a conversation with someone taking advice directly from Lucifer.
I wonder if Greg will ever see the similarities?
In the minds of mentally ill homeless people they are convinced things are going really well for them and are going to get spectacularly better.
You can't convince them otherwise.
That is why I try not to ignore you, Greg.
Genny Cream Ale wrote:
Greg wrote:
New York City has many homeless people.
Back in the day, these folks would get sent upstate to mental hospitals.
How things have changed. In the United States, the mentally ill are generally not forced into any type of treatment until the enter the criminal justice system. Most refuse medication for a variety of reasons. Unless a mentally ill person is deemed a threat to society, the person is left to his or her own devices.
One can voluntarily seek treatment, but the threshold for mandated treatment is very high. Unfortunately, the abuses within the previous format ruined America's appetite for more compulsory treatment. America seems to now prefer allowing the nonviolent, less anti-social, mentally ill to self medicate with drugs and alcohol, while incarcerating violent offenders. Love it or hate it, that's the way the United States handles mental health.
As an untrained civilian, approach a mentally ill person at your own peril. You can't save this person. Interact with an unstable individual and it could turn violent rather quickly. I think you will also find that it can be hard to hold down a conversation with someone taking advice directly from Lucifer.
+1
bag of used cat litter wrote:
I wonder if Greg will ever see the similarities?
In the minds of mentally ill homeless people they are convinced things are going really well for them and are going to get spectacularly better.
You can't convince them otherwise.
You are a bag of cat litter? gross.
Stay away!
Nutsack McGee wrote:
Congrats! This is certainly the most ironic thread title that I have ever seen!
Congrats on the dumb username!
After a little more than a month the prediction in the title appears to be validated.
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