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How Hospitals Respond When Mentally Ill People Come in From the Streets - The New York Times
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A lot of the issues identified in the article are the same here, except for the insurance issue. But there's definitely a shortage of psychiatric beds and I know the largest psychiatric hospital here regularly discharges people back to the streets where the cycle just continues.
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And even if they had money, the priority would normally be food? Not sure why they can't (in this country and the USA) build hotel-like buildings and put one homeless person in each room and help them get work (if they are able to work) or money coming in if they cant work might be getting off topic now idk willowtigger shh |
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In some States it's extremely difficult to involuntarily detain someone for mental illness. They have to have a plan to die by suicide or threaten to harm someone. If they don't admit it to crisis response person or police, the police have to see the pills in their hands as they are about to take it or the knife in their hand as they are about to harm someone. It's like that in Washington State for example; and minors 13 years of age and older have the same rights as adults. So parents can't make them go to counseling or take their medication unless there is a difficult to get court order. I know people who have had to deal with this.
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