🔍 As Vivek Ramaswamy said, “bring back mental institutions”—he’s not wrong. The system failed: families shattered, streets filled, prisons overflowed. Ethical, trauma-informed institutions aren’t regression. They’re accountability.
As a retired forensic mental health professional, I’ve seen what happens when care vanishes. Read my article on why I agree with Vivek...
📖 https://tinyurl.com/mentalinstitutions
#MentalHealthCrisis #Deinstitutionalization #ForensicEthics #TraumaInformedCare
#CaregiverBurnout
Decades after mass deinstitutionalization, America is grappling with untreated mental illness, overburdened families, rising violence, and broken systems. This investigative piece explores whether …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfTncSiKr8
#HermenWhitfield's Family Called for Help During a #MentalHealthCrisis.
Pigs 🐷 🐷 🐷 murdered him. #ACAB
USA is so full of sickos who think COMPETITION and WINNING is all that matters in life. They let their friends and family watch Fox News and can't see the horrible hate and manipulation that comes from being in a #Cult - Fox News is a CULT. Twitter is now a CULT of Elon Musk. Instead of teaching #CultDeprogramming and educating people about #CultBehaviorA / #CultBehaviorB - they COMPETE for Mastodon vs. Twitter, BlueSky vs. Twitter - it's all about WINNING / COMPETITION
The rise of the abusive consumer has prompted authorities in Tokyo to introduce the country’s first ordinance – a locally approved regulation – to protect service industry staff from harassment.
Modern life drives people mad. #MentalHealthCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/08/japan-tokyo-kasuhara-customer-harassment-crackdown
Teens' brains showed a general effect of accelerated thinning across adolescence, but this was much more pronounced in females. The cortical thinning effects in females were seen all over the brain, in all lobes and both hemispheres.
#MentalHealthCrisis
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-covid-lockdowns-prematurely-aged-teenage.html
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world implemented restrictive measures—such as stay-at-home orders and school closures—to mitigate the spread of the respiratory illness. It's been well-documented that this disruption of daily routines and social activities had a negative impact on the mental health of adolescents.
"Data reveals that the more types of adversity you experience during your childhood, the more likely you are to have multiple long-term health conditions, or multimorbidity, when you are an adult."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-stressful-childhood-linked-multiple-chronic.html
University of Dundee research has revealed that each additional traumatic or stressful event experienced during childhood increases the odds of an individual suffering from multiple chronic conditions later in life by nearly 13%.
#America is in the midst of a #MentalHealthCrisis.
But finding a therapist who takes #insurance can feel impossible.
Insurers say that’s because there aren’t enough therapists.
That’s not entirely true. [or at all]
>500 other psychologists, psychiatrists & therapists…shared their experiences….
…one after another, [said] they confronted a system set up to squeeze them out.
#law #HealthCare #treatment #MentalHealth #wellness #MedicalCosts #discrimination #care #law
https://projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the-network/
It is commonplace for those that have suffered an event are left without a plan with only a dim chance of a face to face consultation with a psychiatrist a disconnect from primary care and an entirely inadequate Crisis Team.
There is no NHS Psychiatric service. This has been true for over 15 years.