Mental Health History Timeline

Mental Health History Timeline

Here is one link on the subject:  http://studymore.org.uk/mhhtim.htm

Here is another link on this subject:  http://www.dualdiagnosis.org/mental-health-and-addiction/history/

Here is a last link on the subject.  There are many other links on this subject, too.  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/timeline-mental-health-america

Poster’s  comments:

1)      There has to be a better way to take care of our relatively small percentage of humans who are mentally ill and often addicted, too.

2)      For example, the most basic principles of public health are being violated as many of these people pee and poop out in public areas. Cholera epidemics in Haiti have started this way. After all, if you gotta go, you gotta go.

3)      I personally feel a little like an anarchist in that I can complain but also offer no better solutions to the problems, which must addressed. The old system of orphanages and insane asylums of as recently as a half-century ago has been replaced with homeless people living on city steam grates and under rural cliff overhangs and even highway bridges, and even now we use foster care for destitute children. Both approaches have suffered in my humble opinion.

4)      I have treated my dogs in kennels better than my society’s treatment of fellow and not-so-well-off humans and children. There but for the grace of God go I.

5)      One suggestion, let’s get them off the streets and treat them better than our dogs in our kennels.

6)      Is their prognosis for improvement good?  No, I don’t believe so. But that is just me generalizing. Rather I would be willing to pay more taxes just to take care of them as best and responsibly as we can, like better than now and even a half century ago.

7)      This post is not some kind of subtle hint to bring back the ideas behind eugenics, a past tried and failed concept in my mind.

8)      Our mentally ill and poor and destitute people should not get to live in a “Taj Mahal” kind of place, but rather more like an existing military cantonment or even a human “kennel” if you will. It is the expectation of a roof, a warm and dry bed, healthy soup kitchen food routinely served, and public bathrooms that will solve a lot of our mentally ill people’s day to day problems of existence until they die.

9)      Last, and again in my humble opinion, vast change in our status quo is happening all around us, and if that judgment is valid, then now is a good time to try something newer and better in regards taking care of our mentally ill and destitute fellow human beings. Will the solutions be different from what we are doing today, most likely. Will they be “final”, I doubt it. Evolution does take time.