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<blockquote data-quote="skeeter" data-source="post: 86530" data-attributes="member: 439"><p>I was "exposed" to the state mental health institutionalism in the 1970's. My grandmother was diagnosed with "senility" (I don't now if she would today have been diagnosed with alzheimers). She spent a few months in lock up in a hospital psychiatric ward - where she received several shock treatments and lots and lots of drugs. When she was released from there, she was on such a mixture of medications that no nursing home would take her and we wound up having to probate her and put her in a state institution. We could NOT keep her at home, she became extremely violent when not sedated.</p><p>We visited her, and took grandpa to visit, at least 3 times a week. While in the geriatric area, she was extremely well cared for, in fact, much better than an elderly friend in a nursing "home" at the same time. But she wound up in the hospital section due to pneumonia twice, and many of the people on that ward were truly just sad cases.</p><p></p><p>With the work husband and I do with Citizens on Patrol and Court Watch, it's really not "better" today, just different. We have several neighborhood guys that aren't really criminals, they are mentally unstable. But they keep getting caught up in the justice system (of course, often because of self medicating). Even when we advocate for them, it often doesn't help. One probably doesn't have an IQ higher than 70 - but when we insisted that he be evaluated before trial, he was found "competant". And his attorney was happy about that!</p><p></p><p>Institutionalism isn't the answer. NOT institutioning, at least as it's been carried out since the 1980s, isn't the answer either. SO many "fall through the cracks" and into the justice system instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skeeter, post: 86530, member: 439"] I was "exposed" to the state mental health institutionalism in the 1970's. My grandmother was diagnosed with "senility" (I don't now if she would today have been diagnosed with alzheimers). She spent a few months in lock up in a hospital psychiatric ward - where she received several shock treatments and lots and lots of drugs. When she was released from there, she was on such a mixture of medications that no nursing home would take her and we wound up having to probate her and put her in a state institution. We could NOT keep her at home, she became extremely violent when not sedated. We visited her, and took grandpa to visit, at least 3 times a week. While in the geriatric area, she was extremely well cared for, in fact, much better than an elderly friend in a nursing "home" at the same time. But she wound up in the hospital section due to pneumonia twice, and many of the people on that ward were truly just sad cases. With the work husband and I do with Citizens on Patrol and Court Watch, it's really not "better" today, just different. We have several neighborhood guys that aren't really criminals, they are mentally unstable. But they keep getting caught up in the justice system (of course, often because of self medicating). Even when we advocate for them, it often doesn't help. One probably doesn't have an IQ higher than 70 - but when we insisted that he be evaluated before trial, he was found "competant". And his attorney was happy about that! Institutionalism isn't the answer. NOT institutioning, at least as it's been carried out since the 1980s, isn't the answer either. SO many "fall through the cracks" and into the justice system instead. [/QUOTE]
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