Comments on: After Six Years A Mother’s Pain And Anger Remain https://boiseguardian.com/2017/03/12/after-six-years-a-mothers-pain-and-anger-remain/ A different slant on the news. Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Externalities https://boiseguardian.com/2017/03/12/after-six-years-a-mothers-pain-and-anger-remain/#comment-102680 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:03:30 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=13553#comment-102680 A lot, if not most, of the root cause of mental illness is a simple byproduct of profit-at-any-cost Industrial Society.
The non-communal living, chemically poisoned, car addicted, industrial agriculture disaster we lovingly refer to as the American Way of Life creates externalities our corrupt politicians ignore.

The worst of the human wreckage is caused by not treating drug abuse, even though people beg for it.

I’d imagine that the $54 billion Trump wants to gift to the most bloated military in the world would fix most all mental illness and homelessness for decades. The central problem lies in the fact that the very wealthy can profit from endless wars, but not from helping people.

]]> By: Nuts https://boiseguardian.com/2017/03/12/after-six-years-a-mothers-pain-and-anger-remain/#comment-102676 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:34:00 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=13553#comment-102676 We should not be fooled by all the false advertising. Truth is most mental health problems are not curable. The advertising is posted by the businesses who want us to funnel more money into their broken but very profitable system. Serious mental illness will always return if triggered or if treatment is halted. It is for this reason the insurance companies avoid the bottomless pitfall. If you want insurance to pay for everyone’s everything the premiums for each of us will be about $100,000 a year. (Take 20% of GDP and divide it into people who buy insurance.)

So what should we do?
1) Provide limited insurance coverage to handle acute mental health crisis for otherwise normal people. Limited keeps everyone’s premiums reasonable.
2) Direct government funding of treatment, support, and housing of those judged chronically ill and unable to fit into society.
3) Criminalize drinking by people needing frequent mental health care. Because booze is the core problem for nearly all frequent flyers in the rubber room. Criminalize means crossbar motel to get clean sober and forced meds so society can be safe from them.
4) Force adherence to outpatient medication regiments for specified dangerous diagnosis cases. Just like they do for TB patients. (Yes they do, TB law is very old law from before political correctness was invented.) Why so harsh? Because they typically only have a crisis after they stop taking meds.
5) Most everyone in our prisons is there because they have an out of control crazy problem. Prisons need to be split into the sane and the insane. It requires different methodologies of rehabilitation.

How heartless of me? So sorry but mentally ill people are not warm fuzzy puppies. They are harmful. Like the lady’s story highlights, nearly every problem crazy person has been on the radar for a long time. We as a society have been far too concerned with their rights rather than the rights of their victims. Ask any cop who they’re dealing with all night long. There are several examples in the Boise news and even a local murder at the hands of someone not on the meds or not in jail.

]]> By: Kent Goldthorpe https://boiseguardian.com/2017/03/12/after-six-years-a-mothers-pain-and-anger-remain/#comment-102671 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 02:59:12 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=13553#comment-102671 Amen! In the insurance business I used to call the provisions for mental health the “don’t give a damn” provisions. Often there was a limit of a few thousand dollars of coverage payable, less than the cost to set a broken arm.

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