The major problem with the mentally ill, is homelessness. Being homeless.
The second biggest problem is any type of adequate health care. And in a lot of cases, (I checked) the diagnosis that many never received is still not covered under Obamacare.
Listen: I wrote this article. I set up this blog. I taught myself how to use this computer.
Not many years ago I couldn't feed myself for a time. I couldn't remember how to get home from work after I worked in the same place for a year. I walked away from places where I lived, into the street, without knowing what I was doing.
I was severely abused. Medically neglected.
The medical neglect I suffered as a child led to some of my difficulties, in the first place.
Failure to diagnose illness was a main factor in non treatment of the mentally ill. That policy has never changed.
To be diagnosed and treated medically is the best thing that can happen to mental patients.
Understand that this anti care bill (Obamacare) can keep medically ill people from being diagnosed.
The legality of allowing a person to die without even trying to determine their sickness is what many of these people face. Not just the usual circumstance of the mentally ill being ignored.
It is legal to place someone in a mental facility and let them die from a heart attack. As an example.
Sending critically ill patients into mental health care to avoid expenses of treatment is a reality. Obamacare makes it a legal reality.
*I was asked to sign papers to receive mental testing while I was in the hospital for a massive heart attack. The doctor came into my room and tried to trick me into going to have a mental examination before I went into surgery.
I have a feeling that if I would have agreed to take tests for mental competence I would have never got back to the hospital for heart surgery. The rest of the stay was brutal, viscous, cruel, and abusive, but I did get enough surgery to survive. Even though they cut the operation in half and discharged me without telling me. (Government ordered.) I found out the hard way about two weeks later.
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