Title: Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control. : PoliticalDiscussion
Headings: Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control.
Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control.
Ronald Reagan nailed the coffin shut on mental health funding in this country but now it's time pull the nails out and resurrect it. Lets focus more on caring for the mentally disturb and not so much on gun control.
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Content: By then, however, the nation was doubting the president's kindness. A1982 Louis Harris survey found nearly three-quarters of the respondents said the president was hard-hearted toward the poor. These are the facts. And they add up to a roll-back of opportunities for people already struggling with a psychiatric illness. Whatever spin accompanies the birthday celebrations for Ronald Reagan, we should not create yet another mythic figure, larger than life, more pure than Ivory soap, or with qualities he did not have. He may have portrayed himself as everybody's lifeguard, but he seemed willing to let people with a psychiatric illness sink. http://www.miwatch.org/2011/02/_ronald_reagan_and_mental.html
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Secondsemblance
8 years ago
I got sent to a mental hospital after a bad reaction to an SSRI. Came out a month later with $17,000 in debt. Fuck the system. 8
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dsfox
8 years ago
The idea isn't to tie mental health care to spree killers, it is just to provide mental health care to people who need it.