tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3232228308681896954..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Infuriating Mental Illness ArticleAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-32246286288251672692022-05-18T19:59:37.363-04:002022-05-18T19:59:37.363-04:00Good stuff. ThanksGood stuff. ThanksAssistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-72828918592979876212022-05-18T16:25:38.983-04:002022-05-18T16:25:38.983-04:00Another link: https://www.reporterherald.com/2018...Another link: https://www.reporterherald.com/2018/11/06/larimer-county-mental-health-tax-wins-big/ColoCommenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027471823319260166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-32891689059936535422022-05-18T16:23:59.374-04:002022-05-18T16:23:59.374-04:00Further to AVI's comment at 9:57 am:
Colorado...Further to AVI's comment at 9:57 am:<br /><br />Colorado's Larimer County Sheriff Dept. has a website where it tracks the county's detention center population. The "current" data there show approximately 30% of the inmates as transient/homeless* and 70% "Other inmates." There is no breakdown of those inmates who are suffering mental health problems..., but I think it would be safe to say that however many there are, they are not provided with appropriate treatment.<br />* category depends on whether "in area" for more/less than 30 days<br />https://www.larimer.org/sheriff/jail/jail-population#/totals<br /><br />In 2018, the citizens of Larimer County approved funding for a new, separate mental health facility, which should relieve the Sheriff Dept. of the responsibility for those individuals whose mental health circumstances require more training & treatment options than the Sheriff Dept. can provide.<br /><br />https://www.larimer.org/spotlights/2021/12/09/construction-begins-new-larimer-county-behavioral-health-facility-0<br /><br />A harbinger, perhaps, of a return to "institutionalization," but with a more modern medical learned experience than pre-1970s.ColoCommenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027471823319260166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-15556038664606817842022-05-18T09:57:05.995-04:002022-05-18T09:57:05.995-04:00There are a huge number of people with mental heal...There are a huge number of people with mental health symptoms in jails, which has become another MH institution even though they didn't want that job.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-41754939146622771282022-05-18T07:06:55.595-04:002022-05-18T07:06:55.595-04:00I like to apply balloon-squeeze theory (aka the di...I like to apply balloon-squeeze theory (aka the dirt you just swept out the front door will likely come back in through that open window) to the situation. We seem to be well on our way to spending as much or more money as we did for institutionalization on the addicted and mentally ill because de-institutionalization didn't make them go away. We just call it housing for the homeless, and kind of ignore that most of the people being housed are not simply down-on-their-luck or other attractive victims of economics. We practice a soft institutionalization with the cops as the primary caregivers, and homeless shelters and other alternative housing as the institutions. We don't call them hospitals because the people administering the programs don't have medical degrees. They do have advanced degrees in grievance studies so they don't drive the conversation about the situation in medical terms like the old psych doctors did but into the terms and frameworks they have internalized.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com