I think it's pretty much preaching to a choir. Genuine problems get so much support that under cover of said support we throw help at people who might or might not have a sniffle of a real problem. And when 9 out of 10 people are simply using the system to get attention, drugs, food, anything but help, the real problems are drowning in that sea of pretense. More than that, people who come really to get help the first time around quickly realize (or get taught by frequent flyers) that they can use the system, and voila! someone who used to come for help now comes just because life is easier in a hospital. Not to mention that the resources of the system are not limitless.
I'd much rather someone made a movie in which that overabuse of our way too lenient system was depicted properly. Probably then the laws that tells us that we can't refuse help to someone who comes and tell us he's suicidal (for the fifth time in 2 months) might be relaxed. And then we won't have to have people with real psychotic and mood disorders outnumbered by borderlines and users 5 to 1.
And that's just scratching the surface. I really don't want to go deeper. It's so screwed up. I really do want to help mentally ill people. The problem is that my time at work is getting predominantly wasted on people who simply pretend to be so in order to get the goodies. And they have all the support created and nurtured by abovementioned, no doubt endowed with all the good intentions, movie-makers.
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Date: 2009-06-12 05:58 pm (UTC)I'd much rather someone made a movie in which that overabuse of our way too lenient system was depicted properly. Probably then the laws that tells us that we can't refuse help to someone who comes and tell us he's suicidal (for the fifth time in 2 months) might be relaxed. And then we won't have to have people with real psychotic and mood disorders outnumbered by borderlines and users 5 to 1.
And that's just scratching the surface. I really don't want to go deeper. It's so screwed up. I really do want to help mentally ill people. The problem is that my time at work is getting predominantly wasted on people who simply pretend to be so in order to get the goodies. And they have all the support created and nurtured by abovementioned, no doubt endowed with all the good intentions, movie-makers.