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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 534168" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Mental health services are bad everywhere I'm afraid. Hopefully there would be a change in attitudes in future.</p><p></p><p>Where I live we have had a long time a trend to close down inpatient treatment places for those with mental health issues. Part has certainly been to save money, part has been idealistic ideas of self-determination and living as an equal citizen. Money-wise they are taken cared of, they don't end up in streets but have apartments that social services pays rent for. And they have their medications and met with psychiatrists and therapist's regularly. And there is also activities available. Unfortunately for many it is not enough and we have people who are not able to leave their homes because of social fobias and anxiety, people who forget to take their medications, people who get taken advantage of, suicides and the few very sad cases there people have even killed someone so they could get some in-patient treatment, to get away of it all. The topic is currently one of big debates here. </p><p></p><p>And indeed physical and mental or neurological disabilities are at times treated very differently. We have quite a nice government program that finances a person with physical disability to hire an aide to help with their daily care and tasks, housework, entertainment and if the disabled person works or studies with that. The idea is to make it possible to live at home and to have highest possible quality of life. These funds are not available for people who would need same kind of help because of mental health issue or issues like ADHD (I think people with autism can get that service though.)</p><p></p><p>My son's issues are not very serious and now it seems that he may have very bright future and I'm of course not hoping anything away from him on that. But when he was younger and we had our most difficult times with him and no one really knew, what was the problem (well, we still don't), just that he was very complexed and challenging little boy, I few times felt even secretly envious of a friend who has a delightful daughter with down syndrome, who is same age my difficult child is. They were lucky and she doesn't have any serious health problems and has always been a lovely girl. While she had her challenges, everyone could see, that she was special needs, people mostly treated her nicely, they had mostly an easy time getting all needed services and things were nicely planned for her future. They knew early on, how her schooling would happen, what kind of services she would have as an adult (though her moving out has postponed some, they were planning her to move this summer but it seems that the place she will have in new semi-independent housing will not be available yet. They are building a new apartment complex for this and construction will take little longer and it is likely she will be able to move at earliest for Christmas.) We never had that knowledge with difficult child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 534168, member: 14557"] Mental health services are bad everywhere I'm afraid. Hopefully there would be a change in attitudes in future. Where I live we have had a long time a trend to close down inpatient treatment places for those with mental health issues. Part has certainly been to save money, part has been idealistic ideas of self-determination and living as an equal citizen. Money-wise they are taken cared of, they don't end up in streets but have apartments that social services pays rent for. And they have their medications and met with psychiatrists and therapist's regularly. And there is also activities available. Unfortunately for many it is not enough and we have people who are not able to leave their homes because of social fobias and anxiety, people who forget to take their medications, people who get taken advantage of, suicides and the few very sad cases there people have even killed someone so they could get some in-patient treatment, to get away of it all. The topic is currently one of big debates here. And indeed physical and mental or neurological disabilities are at times treated very differently. We have quite a nice government program that finances a person with physical disability to hire an aide to help with their daily care and tasks, housework, entertainment and if the disabled person works or studies with that. The idea is to make it possible to live at home and to have highest possible quality of life. These funds are not available for people who would need same kind of help because of mental health issue or issues like ADHD (I think people with autism can get that service though.) My son's issues are not very serious and now it seems that he may have very bright future and I'm of course not hoping anything away from him on that. But when he was younger and we had our most difficult times with him and no one really knew, what was the problem (well, we still don't), just that he was very complexed and challenging little boy, I few times felt even secretly envious of a friend who has a delightful daughter with down syndrome, who is same age my difficult child is. They were lucky and she doesn't have any serious health problems and has always been a lovely girl. While she had her challenges, everyone could see, that she was special needs, people mostly treated her nicely, they had mostly an easy time getting all needed services and things were nicely planned for her future. They knew early on, how her schooling would happen, what kind of services she would have as an adult (though her moving out has postponed some, they were planning her to move this summer but it seems that the place she will have in new semi-independent housing will not be available yet. They are building a new apartment complex for this and construction will take little longer and it is likely she will be able to move at earliest for Christmas.) We never had that knowledge with difficult child. [/QUOTE]
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