Psychiatric Clinical Social Worker here: We let these folks have their rights to self-determination right up until our sadly past the point that their rights interfere with the rights to privacy, safety, freedom and liberty of the public at large (1 or more) being infringed upon in violent ways-and this benefits whom? The mental health system in the US is failing mentally ill individuals—Thanks Managed-Care Organizations (MCOs)—as well as the addicted, and when we fail them, they fail us except they don’t know the rules to the game being played. And EVERYONE Loses-some more than others.
Sorry, I wrote this while I was half asleep and honestly don’t remember reading your post. I was, I think, responding to someone else’s reply. So sorry!
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u/Competitive-Use-3555 2d ago
Psychiatric Clinical Social Worker here: We let these folks have their rights to self-determination right up until our sadly past the point that their rights interfere with the rights to privacy, safety, freedom and liberty of the public at large (1 or more) being infringed upon in violent ways-and this benefits whom? The mental health system in the US is failing mentally ill individuals—Thanks Managed-Care Organizations (MCOs)—as well as the addicted, and when we fail them, they fail us except they don’t know the rules to the game being played. And EVERYONE Loses-some more than others.