alaxsxaq t1_is683v7 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 4:27 PM

Reply to comment by FiendishHawk in In Pa. county jails, people with mental illness are routinely met with pepper spray and stun guns by WITFnews

How do you think this should be addressed? Fine to blame someone else, but if you have no thoughts about a solution, you are just being lazy and contributing nothing. This country is locked into left/right bullshit that solves nothing. Perpetuating that is of no value.

FiendishHawk t1_is6ek20 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 5:09 PM

It should be addressed by addressing it. Conservatives are reluctant to engage in the issue and the only suggestions I’ve seen from them of any practical intent are “Bring back the asylums” which I do not suppose they are willing to pay for.

Oh and sometimes they suggest just shooting all the homeless but that is more fascist than conservative IMHO.

alaxsxaq t1_is6u00c wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:49 PM

Conservative/liberal arguments aside, have any of our politicians in this state proposed a solution? Does that solution have broad support?

We put up with piss poor services in this state for what we pay. I'm not sure why we expect so little of our government. Placing the blame all on one party is pretty much an act of surrender. If you care, you should realize that you need to do more than complain or march off to the polls every year and vote for your party in the hope that finally be done.

Healthcare in this country is an abomination and we all smile and accept it. We get what we deserve.

FiendishHawk t1_is6umu4 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:53 PM

Liberals have ideas about healthcare reform but it’s really got to be a federal effort, because otherwise the red states will just put all their mentally ill on buses and send them to PA or wherever reforms first.

heili t1_is6rdoi wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:32 PM

> It should be addressed by addressing it.

What?

Let's say, for sake of argument, that I agree with funding mental healthcare for people who suffer severe mental illness. How do we get people to accept treatment? One of the large problems with treating things like schizophrenia is noncompliance with medication.

FiendishHawk t1_is6tfdk wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:45 PM

Let’s get the funding and see if that’s still a problem. Schizophrenics from rich families seem to have less problems with compliance - very few rich men’s mentally ill kids living on the street by choice, hmm?

heili t1_is6uwue wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:55 PM

My family has dealt with this exact issue. It was a revolving door of him taking his medication, feeling better, stopping medication, going off the rails, ending up having problems, emergency holds, convincing him to stay in the hospital, getting him back on meds...

That door revolved for over thirty years until he died. And I do not come from a wealthy family. It's not like there was endless money to throw at this.