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Scoop the Nuts: NYC Rounds Up the Mentally Ill
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 9014106:MV8yMTQ0MjUwXzM2MjE5MzE2X0QyQkJDQTgy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 34124903:MV8yMTQ0MjUwXzM2MjE5MTU4XzUyRUJGNkVG] this is more complicated than that. I have a sibling who manages ok on meds(can feed herself, pay the bills, do all the regualar stuff) but unfortunately goes off them reguarly.She can't take care of herself off meds because the paranoia sets in she scares everyone and she ends up evicted. So she is mentally ill and receives disability and can see a state assigned psychiatrist but when she goes off the meds and won't see the doc there is not a damn thing anyone can do. I am pretty sure she is about to be homeless this time because the state can't lock her up in a mental hospital unless she hurts someone. so now do you know why there are so many crazy homeless people? So if you go crazy and manage to get disability you better take the pills remember that. It is better than being homeless and then picked up by the Bloomberg mental hygiene squad. What happens then? [/quote] Ha! Remember 'the pills' or 'injections' as the case may be VERY OFTEN make you worse. Akathisia - very common side effect - can exacerbate psychotic symptoms, make you suicidal, violent or even homicidal. It brings on severe restlessness and a type of internal torture. That's not to mention the continual brain atrophy and organ damage caused. Granted, it is also dangerous to go cold turkey off your meds too - and ideally, you should have a carer that oversees your day to day condition, and takes action to help prevent a relapse. However, in this case, my concern is what happens to the 'homeless' in the psych ward. It is very expensive to keep people in hospital. My guess is that the doctors would be instructed to keep them on such high doses of drugs, they would suffer horrificly, then die (be killed) within a few months or less. Folks, this has happened previously. [/quote]
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According to the NY Post, NYC has begun a "roundup" of the mentally ill homeless who hang around subway stations.
The city has already
drawn up a list of 25 targets
This comes after a pair of high-profile subway-shove fatalities from December.
“After the Queens subway attack [of immigrant Sunando Sen], the [city] decided to take a proactive approach to track down the most dangerous mental-health patients that currently have
mental-hygiene warrants
” out for them, a law-enforcement source said.
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Cops in the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center are using high-tech methods to first track down the individuals, and detectives on the street have been assigned to then go after them and take them to hospitals, law-enforcement sources said.
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link to www.nypost.com
]
So, it begins with the mentally ill "undesirables"....
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