(12-12-2024, 07:06 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-12-2024, 06:47 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: *Sigh*

72 hours doesn't do anything even close to stabilizing a person who is already on meds. All psychiatric meds have side effects and withdrawal symptoms, some quite severe, so when you go into a facility and they change your meds not only will your brain and body start to feel withdrawals from those meds, but they'll feel the side effects from the new ones. 

The person that isn't already on meds has a better chance of being stabilized but unless they follow-up with a doctor after they're released or go through an outpatient program it's temporary. Can you guess how many folks actually do this? Not as many as you think, especially if they're homeless, live in a shelter, or were in the psych facility against their will, i.e. Baker Acted. 

As for the newly diagnosed? Depending on where they were diagnosed they're not going to get anything remotely close to stabilized. 

The lack of mental health care in this country should seriously concern more people than it does. It doesn't just affect the victims of mass shootings, subway riders and road rage victims. It affects your neighbors, the kids your kid goes to school with, your doctor, your co-workers, etc., and all of their families, friends and others they have contact with. 

It's a bigger problem and more serious than Covid ever was or will be because no one who can do anything meaningful about it lifts a finger to do so.

I agree.  The easiest crisis to respond to is someone who hasn't been on meds and who has a home to go back to.  Those people often get adequate help.  As you explained, a lot of cases aren't like that and we need to respond to those better.