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I like that in the US the mentally ill can just live on the streets for decades and we specifically got rid of the system that was hospitalizing them out of compassion for them.
On one hand the existing mental institutions were actually terrible places with no actual funding or support where they just locked people in padded rooms and left them to fester.
On the other hand eliminating them without providing an alternative or replacement was extremely r-slurred.
Ironically if Reagan hadn't closed them and they still existed today in the same form you'd see the same people campaigning to get them shut down.
My older colleagues tell me some stories... It used to be wild. I agree it needed reform not just being thrown out especially since they had a ton of GIs who smoked heroin and lost their fricking minds in Vietnam
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I like that in the US the mentally ill can just live on the streets for decades and we specifically got rid of the system that was hospitalizing them out of compassion for them.
We're just giving them the freedom they need
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On one hand the existing mental institutions were actually terrible places with no actual funding or support where they just locked people in padded rooms and left them to fester.
On the other hand eliminating them without providing an alternative or replacement was extremely r-slurred.
Ironically if Reagan hadn't closed them and they still existed today in the same form you'd see the same people campaigning to get them shut down.
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My older colleagues tell me some stories... It used to be wild. I agree it needed reform not just being thrown out especially since they had a ton of GIs who smoked heroin and lost their fricking minds in Vietnam
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we didn't feel like paying for it anymore so we make up justification on why it's actually a good thing to get rid of mental hospitals
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basically was an exercise in classical american self delusion
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