Anonymous #3 7w

Republicans literally want to put homelessness people in asylums and prisons en masse… this is federal policy now.

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Anonymous #2 7w

I gotta do research but you are aware of the extensive mental health problems in the unhoused community? Many of which would strongly benefit from being in an institution where they can receive a bed, food, and around the clock mental care. We shouldn’t be “rounding up homeless people” but providing mental health treatment to those in need idk I’m all for that. Like i said I need to do research into what you’re talking about because i’m ignorant to it. If you want to explain more be my guest

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Anonymous #3 7w

Yes and this is not that. The point of this is not to help them but to lock them away

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Anonymous #2 7w

If you are hospitalized in an actually functioning mental hospital, not an insane asylum which no longer exist, you are not locked in to it. If you are unable to be released into society without being a danger to yourself or others then yes you will be forced to stay. It’s the exact same principle as not pulling the plug on someone in the icu when they are simply recovering. They will die without life support so you wait until they get better.

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Anonymous #2 7w

politicians might want to “lock them away” but they are not in charge of patient care. Psychologist are. The profession of behavioral and mental health. I’m in my 5th year currently doing a research project at UT (the only reason why I did a 5th year) I’m going to Berkeley for my PsyD next year. I might be incredibly bias to this system so forgive me if I am. But i only see a benefit in offering mental health resources to homeless people.

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Anonymous #3 7w

Many would actually benefit from a case worker similar to those that navigate discharge for the formerly incarcerated. A glance at the shortcomings and horrors of mental and behavioral health treatment in the prison system, including pre-trial detention, proves that institutionalization creates far more problems than it solves and actually leads to worse outcomes, more homelessness, and increased community violence.

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Anonymous #4 7w

Keeping people in the community is the best way to heal them, so if you are approaching this issue in good faith, the one truly effective treatment is to bring the institution to them. Create a private registry, connect the unhoused to a case worker on government payroll (no more than 30 unhoused to a case worker), and fund or federalize the non-profit traveling mental and physical health services.

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Anonymous #4 7w

I speak from a research background in prison studies, and I’ve seen that psychologists do want to help people, but politicians are too good at tying hands. The management they appoint is only concerned with adhering to an already meager budget, and are only too happy to deny psychiatrist and psychologist requests for different treatment, restraint, and medication options that actually work solely because they’re too expensive to justify using on a poor person

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