Social Illness, Mental Health
What a saddening sight. Poor souls littering the streets because of government defiance to a most needed obligation.How often do we realize we're surrounded by mentally ill people?
The question is, what if those around you claim you're the one who is, what would you do then?
In California the government shut down all our facilities that house these people, imagine that? They're now living at the mercy of relatives and or living as homeless in the streets.
In 1981, Life Magazine ran a story titled "Emptying the Madhouse: The Mentally Ill Have Become Our Cities Lost Souls."
What was Reagan thinking when he thwarted Carter's policy on these poor people?
My children and I were dining in San Francisco and how sad it is to find that these poor souls have doubled if not tripled in number specially near St Mary's Cathedral for the last 20 years.
What about your state? Or your place? Do you get to see some of them? What about other countries, how does your country deal with these poor souls if you have any of them?.
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And here we are spending staggering amount of money on refugees but can't help this people?
Not that we shouldn't participate in these issues but don't we suppose to take care of these people first?
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That's one thing I admire with the Catholic church, it extends it services endlessly to these poor people while the government seems to have completely ignored them like you said.
I hated Reagan for this policy.
Read the article it makes you cry.
As I recall, a mental health issue just requires a 72 hour observation then they get released again. Bad policy, for sure!
I'm angry Ed.
They are locked up. They have a bed and get fed etc.
The "next" day the doors are unlocked and the people are told they can go.
How bewildered they must feel.
Happy to be free for the first little while until hunger strikes them and reality sets in.
When you see a shopping cart loaded to the hilt you know that person is most likely mentally ill as they don't know all they carry but won't get rid of it
Which truly brings me to the conclusion that Reagan must have felt the same sentiment for them. Not that they are aware of them being that, but that we the people called "normal" are the sick ones.
Quite a challenge BC because deep in my heart, sometimes I wish there is no sight of these plights and that they can be given the proper care and love they need because in reality, they are scientifically and clinically and medically declared "incompetent."
A most touchy and very sensitive situation.
It's nice to feel good knowing they're not neglected and or forgotten.
Bill Gates with 48 billion worth should direct his foundation for these needs. My suggestion. Just can't understand how the rich people almost all have connections here in our country and yet remains nonchalant for this concern.
It's sad, even a person who's active with good mental health is not
a guarantee not to be a victim of mental illness. I know a doctor who
was so kind, going to Bible studies and one day she couldn't drive
anymore, didn't remember the street she used to pass by going out...
now she's in a private institution, with Alzheimer disease or
dementia. Now she can't recognized anyone. It's like death of the
spirit and perhaps her soul will be awake when she'll pass away.
We should value our youth as we grow by because before we know it, we won't even know who we were.
Thanks Joy.
I have to ask you, how is your country handling these unfortunate ones if there any? Last time I was there, I haven't truly seen one needy soul worthy of our empathy. Meaning it looks to me that CH will never be confronted with this social defect.
are taking care of him, in an institution. She's still lucky to have
his sons who could find the best caregiver. Nothing is permanent,
specially our good health, so we need to have the attitude of
gratitude each day we can move and travel.
dementia. ..you become prisoner of your body without the brain!
Don't lose hope.
It's not going to be that bad.
We're defying our values for what? Disconnection because being broken is redemptive?
I almost wound up there myself a couple of times
I can go on and on.
Help me break through this wall!
If as stated, our leaders want to implant a chip into every man, woman and child on our planet. I can only come to 1 conclusion.
It is all about the money if you ask me Cheav and that is why Trump will not be bought or manipulated as he doesn't the need to do that. Sincere servitude is what I smell from him, and I can be wrong but at least for right now he represents all the issues we are all concerned about.
After the 50s after the war and finally have moved out of the depression, the true American dream was conjured to serve a truly hard working decent citizen, projected to amortize their house for 30 years and after working of those prime years, be able to retire with a decent pension and or income from the SSS. Today, that is highly eroded and all the hopes of the baby boomers who were responsible in the expansion of the economy are fading away into oblivion. I am a part of that baby boomer and while I don't blame anyone of my own demise, partly the economy that ruined the housing solid future now called the housing bubble is a fault of my own. I am a by product of that corrupt system set up by the government.
Those people at the top have enough moneys to burn for to heat their mansions till they expire.
There is something more.
I can not quite pin point it.
Moneys equate to power. What comes after power!!!
I do try to post what I have researched first.
Some things I wanted to post but did not. Then they became reality.
Go figure.
Money=influence=power=(expansion)=control=God
Every where I research these people, they consider themselves as Gods.
Then again, Helms gate was an exorcise was run, but it did not work out as it was planed.
Thanks to the minds of prominent people that controlled the states involved. And, they too, were raked over the coals by the media.
Sorros owns and controls much of the media. Including, NBC.