Thursday, August 18, 2016
Asylums In or Out?
Recently I read an article on Room for Debate called "Getting the Mentally Ill Out of Jail and Off the Streets". It discussed how South Dakota was putting the mentally ill and the disabled into nursing homes. A man named Dominic Sisti argued that mental asylums should be brought back, but with better systems and institutions. I think mental patients deserve better than the creepy asylums they used to have. They are people and deserve treatment like any other illness. I don’t think that mentally ill people should be forced into an asylum unless they are dangerous to people around them, or a guardian wants them to receive treatment to help them. More money should be put into the building of mental asylums so that they are good places for mental patients to live and receive treatment. The money should also go to people who want to study to become psychiatric doctors so that the treatment on the mental patients are the best. Mental patients are people, and deserve to be treated like one.
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I love that someone wrote about this, because asylums are something that I strongly believe in. Asylums and/or mental hospitals should be accessible to people that are a danger to others or to themselves. Mental illness needs to be addressed as much, if not more, than physical illness. A broken mind can do much more harm than a broken body
ReplyDeleteI agree that people are people, and giving people bad conditions is unfortunate to those in that position. I think the there should be better care facilities for the mentally ill than jail, because jail will not help anything. A facility geared towards mentally ill and disabled people will be positively beneficial. Although, achieving this change is another discussion because merely saying something should happen tends to not fix anything. Unfortunately, having one of these care facilities or programs constructed would take a lot of time and money.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying, I think a lot of high-rate crimes are definitely associated with the lack of funding by the federal government given to research towards mental health or improved facilities. Although it may not be correlated, it has been argued that our country has had so many shootouts due to the government's irresponsible way of providing and treating victims of mental illness.
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