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What do you Call Someone with a Chronic Brain Disease?
I agree with you and Torrey against Szasz. Obviously people can screw up their lives through faulty thinking. It's been a while since I've read anything from the "mental illness is an illusion" point of view, but mental health can't but help deal with the brain which is, after all, a part of the human body.
I suspect that if we dealt with some other problems in health care policy, the issue of health care parity would take care of itself.
You're also right about the problems of warehousing mentally ill people in prisons.
I suspect that if we dealt with some other problems in health care policy, the issue of health care parity would take care of itself.
You're also right about the problems of warehousing mentally ill people in prisons.
- posted by John LaPlante
- November 30, 2007 @ 12:44 pm
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The bottom line is that either we pay now or we pay later by not having parity of coverage. Many are suffering silently and in shame. Rather than all sharing the cost and responsibility to humanely take care of our ill, we pay individually or as groups when an attack by an untreated psych patient who has access to weapons occurs.