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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 192253" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>This was a fascinating book. </p><p> </p><p>Deinstitutionalization was actually supposed to be to get ONE person in a sanitarium : underwear, clean food, proper medication and some time out of the day room. If you read the fine print there - an attorney looking to get his client OFF (at any cost) who was NOT mentally ill - but fell under the deinstitutionalization guidelines - got off scott free and that opened a hole in the damn. Then the system went to hell thanks to Ronald Regan. </p><p> </p><p>I think he was a great president - I don't think he knew a flipping thing about mentally ill people - so how fitting he passed with Alzheimers and in the end knew possibly how others who were less fortunate could have been treated, but were cut loose with literally no home, no services. Sad really. But then - to read the description of what non-existant services are to be had in jail and out of jail for mentally ill....it's just frightening on a new level. </p><p> </p><p>I worry to the bottom of my toes about my son - 15 years in prison with no counseling, no education, no medications......even had he take the plea today for 7 years - but no one in that court EVEN wanted to hear about his mental status, or his history. It didn't count a nickles worth and I had 2 HUGE boxes of stuff for her......condensed into on file box and one 5" binder. </p><p> </p><p>Really scary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 192253, member: 4964"] This was a fascinating book. Deinstitutionalization was actually supposed to be to get ONE person in a sanitarium : underwear, clean food, proper medication and some time out of the day room. If you read the fine print there - an attorney looking to get his client OFF (at any cost) who was NOT mentally ill - but fell under the deinstitutionalization guidelines - got off scott free and that opened a hole in the damn. Then the system went to hell thanks to Ronald Regan. I think he was a great president - I don't think he knew a flipping thing about mentally ill people - so how fitting he passed with Alzheimers and in the end knew possibly how others who were less fortunate could have been treated, but were cut loose with literally no home, no services. Sad really. But then - to read the description of what non-existant services are to be had in jail and out of jail for mentally ill....it's just frightening on a new level. I worry to the bottom of my toes about my son - 15 years in prison with no counseling, no education, no medications......even had he take the plea today for 7 years - but no one in that court EVEN wanted to hear about his mental status, or his history. It didn't count a nickles worth and I had 2 HUGE boxes of stuff for her......condensed into on file box and one 5" binder. Really scary [/QUOTE]
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