Ooof; harsh but true. The Venn diagram of people I've met who have a utopian vision of how to treat mental illness, who don't really believe that mental illness actually exists, and who have clearly never witnessed someone lose all contact with reality, is a circle. A lot of these people generally support progressive social policy but recoil at the idea of long-term residential care, which is sad because the only alternative for most people with severe mental illness, as we've seen over and over again, is a piece of cardboard on the sidewalk.
Ooof; harsh but true. The Venn diagram of people I've met who have a utopian vision of how to treat mental illness, who don't really believe that mental illness actually exists, and who have clearly never witnessed someone lose all contact with reality, is a circle. A lot of these people generally support progressive social policy but recoil at the idea of long-term residential care, which is sad because the only alternative for most people with severe mental illness, as we've seen over and over again, is a piece of cardboard on the sidewalk.