A lot of mental hospitals have been shut down over the last few years. Does this mean that psychiatrists are more proficient these days? Is mental illness on the wane?
Are most of the so-called 'sane' people of this world really sane, or are they just cleverly hiding their madness?
2006-09-18 14:03:04 · 12 answers · asked by Polo 7 in Health ➔ Mental Health
There are less Mental Hospitals but many more teams to support people with Mental Helath issues in the community, afterall just because you have a Mental Illness does not mean you should have to live your days out in an institution. A very small minority of people with Mental Health problems are a danger to others, of those that can be it is a symptom which wanes and a very, very tiny minority need life long inpatient care in special units. The system has changed as have treatments and attitudes and it is all more humane and for the better.
Mental Hospitals were very unfair and scarry places sometimes. The former Mental Hospital in my City has had a wing renamed, which is now offices, in memory of the longest serving female patient there. She went in at15 and died there at 83, all because she got pregnant to a married man! I'm glad things are different!
2006-09-19 13:02:40 · answer #1 · answered by bumbleboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several reasons to explain your statement.
Until some years ago, mentally ill patients were not "socially accepted" reason why family members kept them in institutions. Today is very common for people to eccept and share their mental illness diagnosis with other people.
Health care cost is too high to keep patients in a mental institution 24/7, so as long as they are not dangerous to society they are free to live anywhere, many of them on the streets.
And third, newer medicines that can be easily taken by mouth, are able to control symptoms such depression, illusions, paranoia, apetite, sleep disorders, violent behavior, etc.
2006-09-18 14:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by Just Me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where I live the acute services in the hospital were closed, but two new units were opened down the road. Compared to 20 years ago, more people who were in hospital now live their lives in the community with the support of the excellent mental health services such as drop-ins, where people can go for support.
2006-09-19 01:09:49 · answer #3 · answered by tinkerbell34 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though a lot of mental hospitals have been shut down, in some hospitals they still have a psychiatric ward for people who need to stay there because they are mad.
People aren't hiding their "madness", they are treating it to get better.
But really I'm just saying what i hear and see in this world.
2006-09-18 17:07:55 · answer #4 · answered by Black Rainbow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its now called community care but then where are they -neither in community or in the care profession .No certainly not on the wane just more self-help and alternatives around -but then we dont need to hide our madness as everyone is in the same boat we who have the coveted label are just better at it
2006-09-19 03:09:51 · answer #5 · answered by manic 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of it is because of better medicine... what would have, in the past, been a very serious disease can now be successfully treated with a prescription.
Also, it might have something to do with the healthcare system. There are probably several contributing factors.
2006-09-18 14:12:24 · answer #6 · answered by willow oak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
judgment is is the mind of the owner. These so called therapist, are more pissed and have missed more than the so called average person. There is no such thing as an average person. But I DO BELIEVE THERE ARE MAD PEOPLE PSYCHOTIC. i.e. losing a sense of reality as we are brainwashed to accept it,. you be the judge. You. asked the question.
2006-09-18 14:30:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have cut alot of funds for state supported intitutions and they have better drugs but I think therapists are a bunch of pissed-off weird-o's trying to work through your crap. Ever notice how they always know how you're feeling ?.......bull-crap ! there are alot of people living among us that do cleverly hide their madness......I know several people like that.....and I'm one of them.!!!!
2006-09-18 16:55:57 · answer #8 · answered by nightcrawler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medication deals effectively with most mental problems.
2006-09-18 14:10:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It means that the government, for reasons it's keeping to itself, has drastically cut funding to mental health.
2006-09-18 14:35:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋