May 23, 2006While We're Talking About HonestyI'd like to encourage TAC, which obsessively catalogs "preventable tragedies" involving the mentally ill, to start cataloging some of the other preventable tragedies in the mental health world. Patients raped and abused in state hospitals. State hospitals that dump delusional people on the streets--and, yeah, that insanity still goes on--and a federal government and state governments that refuse to appropriately treat and house the mentally ill in the community, despite the Olmstead ruling, so that they don't have to live in quasi-state hospital programs such as PALS out here in Washington State. It's surely a tragedy, a preventable one even, when thoroughly treated, stable patients get discharged from hospitals but have nowhere to go except, if they are lucky, crummy places like PALS and horrible residential treatment programs, because it robs their freedom when they are making exactly the kinds of sacrifices TAC wants. NAMI, NMHA and DBSA should do this, too. What's more, TAC should also start cataloging the patients who've died and/or developed diabetes taking psych meds like Zyprexa. They should start cataloging the people who commit suicide while taking anti-depressants but weren't suicidal before--you know like with Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and Cymbalta. Yep, NAMI, NMHA and DBSA, you guys too. Preventable tragedies cut both ways. Posted by Philip Dawdy at May 23, 2006 12:04 AM
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Bravo. Yes, they do seem rather obsessive in presenting evidence that links mental illness with violence. For example, in one recent account I read on their site they presented a case of a "mentally ill" woman who had attacked her husbands genitals. They neglected to mention that the wife believed her husband had been unfaithful and the marriage was reputed to have a history of violent interaction between both husband and wife. Violent acts committed by those who are not considered mentally ill are apparently not worthy of comment even though the represent the majority of those who commit violence. Posted by: spiritual_recovery at May 23, 2006 06:20 AM |
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