Buddha when I was a community college tutor I took classes and I did a huge report on community mental health. Political influences and the mindset of not in my neighborhood really cut the foundation of what was planned to replace the state hospitals. I too was committed to two of them and they were bad. There was a very idealistic plan, very much like socialized medicine but politics and fear got in the way and monies disappeared and these communities never happened. So the closed many state hospitals and nothing replaced them. So jails took over.. ( yeah I’m a lot of fun at parties too! ). These neighborhood communities were first planed in the 50-and 60’s under jfk administration but it’s all on paper. Never had a chance. Where I live there’s two small departments for ip many people are driven by police to out of state hospitals for ip. And of course there’s no follow up when they get out and go home. It’s a mess. For 5 counties they are building a mental health ip but they are building it not central to the counties but in the biggest most populous city that will probably use up all the beds and it will be a headache for travel for the others rural.

I’ll stop now, I could go on and on about this