heili t1_is6rdoi wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:32 PM

Reply to comment by FiendishHawk in In Pa. county jails, people with mental illness are routinely met with pepper spray and stun guns by WITFnews

> It should be addressed by addressing it.

What?

Let's say, for sake of argument, that I agree with funding mental healthcare for people who suffer severe mental illness. How do we get people to accept treatment? One of the large problems with treating things like schizophrenia is noncompliance with medication.

FiendishHawk t1_is6tfdk wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:45 PM

Let’s get the funding and see if that’s still a problem. Schizophrenics from rich families seem to have less problems with compliance - very few rich men’s mentally ill kids living on the street by choice, hmm?

heili t1_is6uwue wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:55 PM

My family has dealt with this exact issue. It was a revolving door of him taking his medication, feeling better, stopping medication, going off the rails, ending up having problems, emergency holds, convincing him to stay in the hospital, getting him back on meds...

That door revolved for over thirty years until he died. And I do not come from a wealthy family. It's not like there was endless money to throw at this.