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...Essay The homeless mentally ill are dying with their rights on. They do not need our sympathy; they need our help. They need asylum...
...army? Some say that only about a third of the homeless are mentally ill. Studies done in Boston and Philadelphia, where psychiatrists interviewed the homeless in shelters, yield estimates as high as 85%. Yet only a small proportion, perhaps a quarter, of the homeless are former mental patients. So emptying the hospitals, the skeptics say, is not the major cause of homelessness. This is a non sequitur. The social policy mandating that old patients be pushed out of psychiatric hospitals also mandates that new patients be kept out. True, today's young schizophrenic is less likely than yesterday's ever...
...what to do for those who are truly ill? A common response is: more. More money for local mental health centers. More services. More community. It is not that community mental health has failed, argue many of its defenders. It is that, as has been said of Christianity, it has never been tried...
Partly because country life was thought to be healthier, the asylum has traditionally been located there. It need not be. Older urban hospitals, now being closed, could be turned into institutions to care for the homeless mentally ill. There is no need for warehousing. Smaller-scale urban or suburban clinics will do. The crucial feature of asylum is not isolation or size. It is control...
HEALTHY KIDS NEED CARE TOO The Sibling Center in San Francisco is a new program designed to help chronically ill children's brothers and sisters, who often feel jealousy, anger, resentment or depression when their parents pay too much attention to the child who is sick. A tip for parents: schedule some time just for you and the "forgotten" child...