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Weezer said:
Personally, I think more research needs to be done. And Sparty is partly right in saying the drugs are part of the problem. The big pharmecuetical companies are all about making a dime, but some of the drugs they develop do help deal with mental disorders. The biggest problem with mind altering drugs is they don't effect everyone the same. What may work for one, doesn't necessarily work for someone else. To me, that goes back to more research needing to be conducted to dive further into the root of the problem. Many people have disdain for the subject matter because they don't see mental disorders as a true illness. They see it as something that could and should be controlled by willpower. What they fail to recognize is you cannot change how your thoughts work. I've had people tell me I just need to think of happier things, like that's some kind of magical breakthrough on the treatment of BPD. If I could make it that simple, I would. People do not choose to have a chaotic hell in their minds. If it's there, it's there, and they can't simply turn it off by thinking of sunfshine and rainbows.

Until you have experienced a mental disorder and the way it can eat at your soul, like a cancer, you cannot fathom what these people go through. No one chooses it. It's not something that comes with an on/off switch. Everyday you fight it, and everyday you feel a little more of yourself slip away. And when you try to talk to people, they dismiss you as being dramatic. They don't see what you're going through and don't recognize your cries for help. You end up alone. Mostly isolated from the world.

And this is something the medical field and the government and society in general should focus more on. It ties into the gun control debate. Most of the spree shooters have documented cases of having mental issues, but they fell through the cracks of society and went largely ignored until they fell over the edge. And no, I'm not justifying what they did, I'm just saying that if we focused more on helping these people, they may not have slipped over the edge. Instead the govt fights over tougher gun control laws. That, to me, is trying to put a band-aid on a knife wound. A person who's slipped over the edge will still find a way to kill people if that's his goal. Maybe he won't kill as many, but it still doesn't discourage him from killing some. Treatment is a better option.

Some disorders are obviously more severe than others, so of course there will be people put into asylums to protect themselves and society. But often now when that happens, they are forgotten. There is still a soul inside that shell and they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. They don't deserve to be abandoned entirely. But all disorders deserve to be researched more. I'm not sure exactly how much chemical balance in the brain effects it or what genomes might trigger what, but with advances in modern science, it deserves a focus to help people that cannot help themselves.

I know this probably reads as one long ramble, and it probably is, but mental disorders are like icebergs. What you can see is what juts out of the water, but there's so much more to it that you don't see, buried beneath the surface. It's a shame to see it trivialized because it doesn't necessarily have physical ramifications for everyone to see. If it came with a golfball sized tumor on the side of your head, it would be taken more seriously.
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I did a month-long clinical rotation at Western Mental Health Institute in Bolivar, TN. Mental illness is not a state of mind, brah. It is very very very real. I've had multiple hour-long conversations with many solidly diagnosed delusional schizophrenics. Murderers, rapists, social and sexual deviants. I loves me some Reagan, but he is the reason there are so many crazy mofos walking the streets. There isn't enough funding or the desire the keep these people institutionalized. In fact, it's the opposite. Plan of care is only about getting, and keeping, these people IN society.
 
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So u are saying they are too included in mainstream society? Idk what happened in the Reagan era with that stuff but u can drop some knowledge on me of you'd like
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
So u are saying they are too included in mainstream society? Idk what happened in the Reagan era with that stuff but u can drop some knowledge on me of you'd like
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I can only base this on my experience. I read miles and miles of charts on these people. The reocurring factor always seemed to be that, once the patients were "stabilized" on meds, they were released back into society. Either solo, to family, or in a group home. They always stop taking their meds and behavior gets them readmitted. That behavior may be as harmless as taking a dump on aisle 7 in Kroger. But, their delusions often cause them to act violently.

I can't give you specifics about federal mental health funding but I can tell you that when Reagan took office, he drastically cut mental health funding. Patients were, as a result, released back into the public in droves. Before that time, mental health institutions were like small towns. Of course there are people who, when consistently stabilized on meds, can function in normal society, but the exceptions to the rule often results in being a real danger to society.
 
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If any of you mofos have a Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card, I'll give you tree-fiddy for it right now. No questions axed.
 
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Hobock said:
I can only base this on my experience. I read miles and miles of charts on these people. The reocurring factor always seemed to be that, once the patients were "stabilized" on meds, they were released back into society. Either solo, to family, or in a group home. They always stop taking their meds and behavior gets them readmitted. That behavior may be as harmless as taking a dump on aisle 7 in Kroger. But, their delusions often cause them to act violently.

I can't give you specifics about federal mental health funding but I can tell you that when Reagan took office, he drastically cut mental health funding. Patients were, as a result, released back into the public in droves. Before that time, mental health institutions were like small towns. Of course there are people who, when consistently stabilized on meds, can function in normal society, but the exceptions to the rule often results in being a real danger to society.
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tl;dr
 
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Hey Sarge I am visiting Hattiesburg this weekend you wanna meet up and grab some beers?
 
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bubbacurry1 said:
turkey breast was a win.

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That's just to high tech, Bubba. I'm disappoint.
 
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