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One woman's life long dependance on a system which is designed to fail. Her, and by proximity, the rest of us.
Your Mental Health Care System at work
Seeded on Mon May 10, 2010 10:33 AM EDT
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While mental health money flowing to counties from the millionaires' tax has helped some, many have fallen through the cracks as county budgets are squeezed. Last year, a program for severely mentally ill Medi-Cal recipients was halved, for example, and other reductions have forced many counties to close community clinics, according to the California Mental Health Directors Assn.
However, even when funding has been plentiful, and there are PLENTY of years when it has been, the "mental health care" system ISN'T designed to be successful. It relies on a philosophy whose practitioners DON'T seek or even attempt to actually "treat" people but to "maintain" a functionality.
A FUNCTIONALITY WHICH OFTEN FAILS IN AND OF ITSELF.
Perhaps its the best they can do.
But for the BILLIONS in federal funds which are sought, and the level of inclusion upon society & its members, "WE AIN'T GETTING OUR MONIES WORTH." IF one looks at pharma, psychiatry & its related industries, one CAN'T reach any other result than they sure take more than they give.
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#1 - Mon May 10, 2010 10:46 AM EDTI just got done reading the book "Sybil" and I have to hand it to that psychiatrist. You wouldn't find one like that around today. They are looking for a quick fix to make the person fit in better rather than healing the person completely. I think it's a shame that they have taken that direction.
#2 - Mon May 10, 2010 1:31 PM EDTYeah, "do no harm" & the Hippocratic Oath have been replaced by the pharma expense account & catered 'colleague lecture' lunches & dinners.
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Go to a psychologist. Their focus is to heal the person's way of thinking; not drug them into another frame of mind.
There are good and bad in every profession. My father is an amazing family therapist and I have more respect for him than any other man in my life.
Mental illness is complex and there are many other there that are doing everything they can to bring those suffering relief.
#3 - Mon May 10, 2010 3:10 PM EDTThere is no money in curing people
#4 - Tue May 11, 2010 8:28 AM EDTCOORRECT-A-MUNDO rog
What better racket than to produce a set of parameters, call them "symptoms" & sell them to the public as the cause for all their ails, while offering a "treatment" protocol which NEVER addresses the actual sources of their conditions all the while requiring purchase of pills & maintenance which never shows signs of being or even moving towards, a cure.
Mr. Merriweather: Men will believe anything, the more preposterous the better. Whales speak French at the bottom of the sea. The horses of Arabia have silver wings. Pygmies mate with elephants in darkest Africa. I have sold all those propositions.
LITTLE BIG MAN
1970
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