Why do they have to go to hospitals? Wouldn’t more affordable mental healthcare and better access to good metal health professionals also help? No one in this thread said lock them up in psychiatric hospitals.
Why do they have to go to hospitals? Wouldn’t more affordable mental healthcare and better access to good metal health professionals also help? No one in this thread said lock them up in psychiatric hospitals.
protist@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Oh 100%, but I’m responding to someone who cited “the closure of public mental health institutions” as a reason for increased mass shootings, which I vehemently disagree with
DoomsdaySprocket@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I mean, there’s other kinds of public mental health institutions than full inpatient.
Why not have, say, a location with publicly-reimbursed psychiatrists and psychologists, where a person goes for an appointment?
protist@mander.xyz 1 year ago
That exists already here in Texas in our Mental Health Authority system, and if it exists in Texas I imagine it exists in other states