Quote:I completely agree. I was going with the not judging people because of their transgender status or whatever status people are labeled, whether self identified or not. The status of a person seems to be a hot button issue. Sometimes people need actual mental health care as opposed to prison. And I mean inpatient lockdown type, not the "live your life how you want and check in with us once a week."

Problem is they shutdown soooo many insane asylums in a process called deinstitutionalisation... and now to steal from reddit

 

Starting in the 60s a combination of factors led to the closure of many mental institutions. Books like One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and a series of scandals (such as the Kennedy lobotomy) turned the public against asylums. At the same time government funding of mental institutions was cut in half so as to cover the Social Security liability. Finally improvements of drugs meant that less people needed to be under constant care.

The effects of this can still be seen on the streets today. The biggest cause of the increase in homelessness from 60 years ago to today is the closure of mental institutions. The vast majority of homeless have some sort of mental illness, and would have been in an institution in the 1950s.


but ya we need them back.

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