Discuss “community” Mental Healthcare as Well as Deinstitutionalization?

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Question by rikki: Discuss “community” mental healthcare as well as deinstitutionalization?

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Answer by SophiaSeeker
Communtiy Mental Healthcare; has a ring of Patch-Adams-Humanitarian efforts one site I found had the following mission-statement:

“..to provide access, regardless of ability to pay…” [1]

Some hospitals may offer a sliding-scale; or medicaid might flip the bill for some services; but there are those that fall thru the cracks and have neither ability or resources to afford or sign-up and qualify for either or both…

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It seems opponets argue that such a system if not financed by the private-institution itself…would fall on that of tax-payers…. possibly the same argument of Universal-Health-Care….but if in fact it is founded by voluntary donations/grants, etc… this removes that part of the equation…and I see no ‘Beef’ the usual tax-payer argument could bring to the light of this argument…

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Being aware of the system, and some of my peers on this side of the screen…I’m aware that something needs to change…some are lucky and get the ‘free-ride’ that politicians and the middle-class say we get….but others the homeless population are lucky to ask for any help, let alone know that they need this kind of ‘help’…. Private insurance companies malicious-role in such things have been exaggerated by the likes of Michael Moore and others; but there is also a degree of truth that people have been impacted life/death wise in similar circumstances Moore brings to the silver-screen….

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Deinstitutionalization is something we all need to undergo…The dictionary defintion:

“…2. to remove (care, therapy, etc.) from the confines of an institution by providing treatment, support, or the like through community facilities ….” [2] ; but…

but we all need this, not just the ‘mentally ill’ or ‘sick’; for we are all part of this population and impacted by it; misdiagnosis or ignorance, stigma, etc…doesn’t make this go away; it merely escalates the problem…

One guy on YouTube said Global Warming is the biggest problem facing us…I would have to trump him with your question here…if we don’t have the faculties, capacity, or the resources to make the attempt for constructive-change… then we don’t have anything…

Deinstiutionalization, remedy for us all, not just the few…..and wouldn’t be better if we were all Deinstutionalized from the holes in our wallets of loop-holes and broken promises from [some] of the Private as well as Government institutions that are supposed to act otherwise?

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