A New Begining?

        There seems to be a fault in the system, concerning the assistance of the chronically mentally disabled. There is only assistance during crises and very little supportive follow up. If you begin to function better they drop you and then you are plunged right back into the fear and disorientation that put you in crises in the first place. This is done in an effort to treat more people, with the available funding, but it actually costs more in the long run, for not only do they have a whole bunch of new cases to deal with, they now also have those who were dropped and are now in crises again! Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?

        Of course the Government is interested in getting individuals off their mental health services rolls, as the need for these services is swelling at a logarithmic rate! Only recently did the Surgeon General release a statement concerning the alarming number of suicides, and the need for more comprehensive mental health programs. He targeted addictions and depression as the areas of treatment which needed to be upgraded.

        It's true, there are very few successful treatment programs available to the general public, and almost none for the indigent. The process of dealing with the indigent is to do blood tests, dry out the addicts, and evaluate how high a dose of the most popular psycho-tropic drug they can endure, drug them, and hold them for 48 hours to two weeks. During this "holding" period, the individual is observed, analyzed, tested and subjected to a series of group therapies and personal assignments designed to give him or her a crash course in "emotional hygiene". The doctors, nurses and psych techs are very much aware that most of these individuals will never benefit from this process. The problem isn't that they don't care, the problem is funding.

        Much of what I have gained, in the way of recovery, has come from my honest desire for recovery. It takes a while to get to that point. Some never make it. The reason so many don't make it, the reason there are so many suicides, is that we are teaching our children they are worthless impositions. We are teaching our children that violence is power. We are teaching our children to care about others first.

        Many

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