Medicine isn’t going to cure spiritual problems.

It’s a temporary gloss over the symptoms, while providing a permanent crutch.

If people try to fight it by promoting some kind of “solution”, that has already been accounted for in the fail safes.

The false choice is another Red vs Blue.

Some people get the attention of the State and some don’t. While I hope the Brits don’t hear this…what if they decide people complaining about Asian grooming gangs need ten years in the giggle emporium? What’s to stop them?

Americans couldn’t even stop a local New Orleans city from confiscating people’s weapons during Katrina. I doubt anybody else in the country will have the organization effectiveness to do much of anything when they come across the Deep State.

I was going to make a long post about our experiences but do not want to invade her privacy. Suffice it to say I have lived with a person I care deeply about who has schizophrenia for about 40 years so I know whereof I speak.

My family member is a female and as is typical she had her psychotic break later than men, in her late 20’s. Women also tend to have milder symptoms than men. Since then with a few terrifying exceptions she has been good about taking medicine so she functions fairly well.

And that to me is the key. If you go to websites like schizophrenia.com you will see that the almost universally family members want their loved one to take medicine. The stuff really works for the illnesses I mentioned and people who take it are much better off than those who do not.

The problem with finding a medicine is that there are no physical tests. You just try a new one and observe the symptoms. The risk of course is that the patient gets so psychotic that she will not take any medicine.

My bottom line is that we do not need more psychiatric beds. We need a way to get people with the illnesses I mentioned to take medicine. If they won’t take a pill, there are other ways. Most medicine has a liquid form, which is a lot harder for people to fake taking. Of course this brings up civil rights issues but if you compare the loss of rights to the damage of living on the street anyone who cares about the person will lean heavily to strong measures to get her to take medicine.

We’ve had psychotic patients, including many who were quite violent, essentially living in our ER for months at a time. We aren’t equipped or trained to deal with them. Lots of injured RNs.

Thirty years ago I worked in an institution that had a locked psych unit where these acutely ill people could be admitted and eventually stabilized. Those facilities need to be brought back.

If you ask her why she does this, she will tell you that she can’t stand to see human suffering no matter the cause, but especially the mentally dysfunctional, that no one seems to care, not the government, the police, nor their families. They are the lost souls living under bridges, in tents, stealing to survive and buy drugs and food. They can’t function in most jobs, although many do work. She sometimes sees families with small children who are living in cars while one or the other parent works picking olives or other low pay work.

The truly mentally ill among these people need to be housed and cared for, if not for their sake, for ours. They are the ones who often break into homes and cars. The jails are full of them, and they don’t belong there. Szasz was wrong. Many of these people need to be institutionalized.

As to my friend’s daughter, she worked for 10 years as a nurse in an AIDS hospice back in the 90s. Were she Catholic she’d be a candidate for sainthood.

“His views on special treatment followed from libertarian roots, based on the principles that each person has the right to bodily and mental self-ownership and the right to be free from violence from others”

This reinforces the comments I previously posted.
Szasz caused immeasurable harm.

IIRC, I have previously posted on this blog some anti-Dr. Thomas Szasz remarks. He was a tenured professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine of Syracuse University, who started the nihilistic foolery of “There is no such thing as (organic) mental illness” in the 1960s. His “Myth” book was published in 1961. I know this well, having been exposed to this nonsense as a medical student in a nearby school then. BTW, he did not ever resign his tenured faculty position. His writing (inadvertently or not?) boosted the irrational mob mentality of the 1960s: the Establishment is evil and must go! Uhuru! Freedom!

This nihilistic foolery, combined with the civil rights movement, yielded civil rights for the profoundly mentally ill, the guys who though they were Napoleons, who were empowered to refuse anti-psychotic drugs. State mental hospitals, sanctuaries for the crazies that provided food, clothing, shelter, 24-hour medical and nursing care, and a modest purpose in life such as tending a garden, were abandoned. The Beltway created ambulatory “Community Mental Health Centers”, which are a poor (voluntary, for psychotics!) substitute. My brother, a shrink, still works at one. He is of course paid with taxpayer dollars.

The first generation anti-psychotics worked, but had terrible side-effects, some permanent. Despite this evidence, ideologues like Szasz persisted.

Szasz had little effect on my medical school class, due to a very powerful (does that not sound odd?) psychiatry dept. About 20% of my class went into psychiatry! I did not give that the slightest consideration, in part because I witnessed a paraplegic woman in severe pain, a psych in-patient for a week pronounced a Freudian “conversion reaction” by all the chin-strokers, until better X-rays showed spinal cord compression and vertebral destruction by metastatic cancer. I did not want to join a profession like that. They would not/could not do basic neurologic exams, which would instantly have shown her paralysis to be of organic, not hysteric, cause.

It is ironic that the certifying Board is the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry, and yet psychiatrists have so little neurologic knowledge.

Democrat areas are moving people around inserting them into living spaces against the will of the people they are to represent and no one thinks that is not normalized to that end? that slicing the salami has desensitized us to such? that the whole similar argument that came historically before this and this is a repeat is 1930s occupation satellite states.

Here they are equivalently moving people around like Stalin did, but within their power limits, which were different for Stalin, and they are even doing it for the same/similar spravka reason (which is not their reason, but the reason to sell it to the public by). the reason?

well humans (in the west) prior to the improvements had pedigrees, they knew their past and their families were important, but now, most of the non elite class have been reduced by feminism, changing breeding to randomized mutts (whether we like that description or not).

One must realize that this was the old serfdom concept. All such elite has to do after that is assert their pedigree, while everyone else lost theirs – even if they ended up being a prince with a “purple pimpernel on his posterior”.

Americans do not study (are now incurious), do not care to understand even academically, nor even believe any of it works – they are well prepared….

they fear tiny actors with pittance money of 100 million, and ignore pachyderms sitting on their chests preventing breathing that have real armies, real training schools, real billion dollar budget equivalents and complete freedom to act in any way they want to act without any fear of any real reprisal on any real action…

veddy interesting people…

One day after Orange County supervisors voted to spend more than $70 million to house the homeless, residents in three prosperous cities expressed alarm about a proposal to set up “camp” shelters in their communities.

Besides creating permanent housing, the officials’ plans call for possible camps in Irvine, Laguna Niguel and Huntington Beach on county-owned land. The Irvine City Council voted unanimously late Tuesday to sue the county to stop the proposal.

people are alarmed because why?

but note, two forms of power, the power you have and the power you feel. the power you feel can only be felt by forcing people to accept something against their will, the other kind, doing what is right and they like, gets no reward

The squeaky wheel gets the oil, the bent nail attracts the hammer, the tall grass gets cut down, all speak from a old age to a new age in which the absence of such good power, everyone has to scream to have any power other than those who abuse it, who get to be distracted in a special way that “let them eat cake” while not said, sums up quite nicely!!!!!