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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 430309" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Sad. Those who don't wind up in jail often wind up homeless or in nursing homes.</p><p></p><p>I'm not going to get on my soapbox but this is what should have been considered at length before state hospitals who used to treat and house these people were closed. Yes many, maybe even most, needed overhauled and updated and staffing changes......but to close them gave the mentally ill no place to go. Now they're feeling the backlash from that. </p><p></p><p>Not all state hospitals were the horrors they were made out to be. Many were well run facilities that truly cared for the welfare of their patients.......in the end though, even those were closed. </p><p></p><p>Even as a teen/young adult I always wondered where in the world they expected all the people who used/depended on such facilities to go.</p><p></p><p>Ugh. Ok. So much for not getting up on my soap box.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 430309, member: 84"] Sad. Those who don't wind up in jail often wind up homeless or in nursing homes. I'm not going to get on my soapbox but this is what should have been considered at length before state hospitals who used to treat and house these people were closed. Yes many, maybe even most, needed overhauled and updated and staffing changes......but to close them gave the mentally ill no place to go. Now they're feeling the backlash from that. Not all state hospitals were the horrors they were made out to be. Many were well run facilities that truly cared for the welfare of their patients.......in the end though, even those were closed. Even as a teen/young adult I always wondered where in the world they expected all the people who used/depended on such facilities to go. Ugh. Ok. So much for not getting up on my soap box. [/QUOTE]
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