[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by MikeSid

This.

Homelessness is primarily a mental health issue.

And the biggest problem is that it is a very complex issue the solution for which greatly affects individual freedoms. We'd have a helluva lot less homeless on the street if Nurse Ratched kept them locked in the Cookoo's Nest. We could simply lobotomize the problem away. But I don't think any reasonable human would want to go back to those dark ages.

So until a better solution is found, buy Coleman stock, because they'll be selling a lot of tents.

Lobotomies aside (IIRC in canada was stopped early 50's) , it wasn't as bad as the movies made out. Chemical restraint was better than physical or letting them self harm and/or beat the crap out of other patients, electro shock is still used, much lower levels, but it does work, etc. Treatments, just as in the whole medical field, have improved vastly.

Most of the public do not understand mental issues whatsoever. Individual freedom is a crock with mental illness, these are sick people.

My wife works in the psychiatric field.