Title: Mental Illness Advocate vs Mental Health Advocate | Psychology Today
Headings: Mental Illness Advocate vs Mental Health Advocate
Stephen Seager M.D.
Mental Illness Advocate vs Mental Health Advocate
Finally the truth. Incredible insight. This is a must read from DJ Jaffe.

Content: That would be wrong. We are short 95000 hospital beds, nationwide and 4000 in NY, even if we had perfect community services. When hospitals go down incarceration goes up. There are so few hospitals, today it’s harder to get into Bellevue than Harvard and once in you’ll be discharged sicker and quicker. Here in Albany last week Desmond Wyatt was released from the Capital District Psychiatric Center and killed his mother the next day. His brother told police Desmond was hearing voices but that didn’t stop the hospital from releasing him. We have to stop ignoring the seriously ill. Mental health advocates work to convince the public that violence is not associated with mental illness. That may be true for the high functioning but violence is clearly associated with untreated serious mental illness. To convince the public mentally ill are not more violent, mental health advocates quote studies of the treated.