This is an issue that we agree on.
If it is a cost issue, the costs are far greater to society for the mentally ill to not be cared for; however, it is incumbent upon the families to do their part as well, which is a sometime occurrence. On a compassion level, if our society has the means, I believe Jesus would want us to tend to their troubles. |
I totally agree with the foolishness of shutting down our NC Mental Hospitals. Dorothea Dix was a compassionate and understanding person that some people need special care due to mental defects.
In Germany the Nazis exterminated the Gypsies / mental cases / Jews. Many states have done what NC has "in the interest of a balanced budget." That sucks, in my view. What we are doing to the mentally ill is tantamount to extermination because some of them have been involved in "suicide by cop" in recent years. I worked as a Nurses Aide on the Alcoholic Ward at Dorothea Dix as my first NC job to get through Graduate School. I also took a Chaplaincy Course at Southeastern Seminary where we were given exposure to all the aspects of Dorothea Dix. We witnessed Electro-therapy used on schizophrenia. The electrodes applied to each side of the patient's head induced a seizure. We visited a woman's outbuilding ward where a lady told me her demented tale of being in "her world" as opposed to the outside being "another world." Her back story that filtered through the dementia was of being molested as a teen by her sister's husband and that sent her over the edge to what she was in her 40's that day. At Dorothea Dix the patients lived in a safe place with their meds monitored and administered. Today, those same people are doing the best they can. Some are sleeping under the stars and behind storage bins. What has happened to COMPASSION??? Are we really so focused on building highways and promoting our state and Education ~~~ that mental illness is forgotten??? My son lived in Traverse City, MI. Their hospital is now an empty hulk just like Dorothea Dix. It was never fancy, but it was safe and patients were secure. I know of a friend from another state who was a Mental Health Professional. She told me the sad story of one of her clients who committed suicide rather than carry his demons inside his head for another day outside their closing Mental Hospital. |
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Many of our social programs are a result of local church people worshiping their organ and building over ministering to the needs of those next door. If we had real compassion as the base of all our religion, there would be no unmet social issues. The local folks know whether people are sucking the tit or just plain "down on their luck.."
Sometimes tough love is more needed than being used for an easy life. This touches on Title XX War on Poverty matters. That has been in place since the mid-70's. It is now being called "workfare" rather than "welfare," but people are still doing the appearance of applying for jobs with no desire to work.
FDR put in Public Works programs where people could use their time to create and better our country. I am sure such people could quickly work the same 40 hours or more a week to earn their help over sitting around "expecting" it. Even at Dorothea Dix, the patients with alcohol problems sat and talked with one another and that was better help than the old red-faced Head Psychiatrist who would declare, "We are going to help you get to the place alcohol can be handled."
NO --- when the bottle owns you, the only real solution is to never touch it again! That is the word between sick alcoholics when the AA guys came in for their time with the patients. The same with drugs people think they must have prescribed to survive. Just work and it will become clear to you how to go on with life!