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HOW TO DEAL WITH THE MENTALLY ILL IN A FREE SOCIETY?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 27237669:MV8yMTMxODY2XzM1OTg4MTUzXzJEOTMyN0Q5] ..well we have a problem with the fact that Psychology is an academic and applied discipline..not a science. Yet we allow it to be given science standing to often. You and I can see a poor soul standing in the middle of the street,talking to his invisible friends/tormentors and agree we cannot allow him to be a danger to himself or others. We could also agree that he needs to housed,fed.."treated" ( I know that creeps me out also)...I know the horrors of meds and other treatments..I also know of great success for others. That's why it's a odd pseudo science. We cannot, for humane reason alone, allow the mentally ill to starve and live a hellish life nor can we lock up oddballs. There is a unknown percentage we can help lead a independent life and some need to be housed. It should be a legal proceeding, open to the public with the PERSON's best interest at the heart of the proceeding. This will cost money,however we pay a great price now in petty crime, drug overdoses and unpaid hospital stays etc etc. The crazy cat lady is not a concern. The crazy lady eating cats is. [/quote]
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So lately there has been a lot of talk because of the recent shootings about the mentally ill and the mentally ill having access to firearms.
I have heard many pundits, many glpers, many everyday people talking about this, yet no one really has any solutions.
I make this thread under the assumption we all or at least most of us wish to live in a free society. With that said, how in a free society do we prevent or lower the chances of a mentally ill person obtaining a firearm? We can't go around involuntarily committing people we "suspect" may be mentally unstable.
Plus it starts to get shaky when we try and define mentally unstable and who should define this? Plus the meds we give the mentally ill generally have negative psychological effects. Potentially making a bad situation worse.
Is there a way to tackle this problem without violating peoples civil rights? Without doping everyone we suspect to be mentally ill into a drug induced coma? Also without restricting gun rights?
What do you all think?
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