Mental Health Treatment in the US

[Benton]

(02-07-2017, 12:41 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I probably shouldn't offer up my opinion because what I know of the mental health system in America comes almost exclusively from movies and TV shows, but assuming they're relatively accurate, I gotta wonder if part of the problem is that we treat these institutions as another form of prison, in terms of punishing people as opposed to actually "reforming" them.

Treatment costs money. Like any other illness. And often times these are people without a lot of resources, so it falls to society to decide how to handle it.

Right now the mindset is 'get them out of sight.'