New research finds that Americans across party lines are in support of alternatives to involuntary mental health treatment, contrasting a recent federal initiative for mandated treatment.
The Trump administration has pushed for involuntary hospitalizations of people experiencing homelessness, mental health issues, and substance use problems. An executive order issued over the summer calls for placing homeless people into “long-term institutional settings.” However, a new research study, published in JAMA Network Open, finds that this federal action counters the attitudes of Americans across the political spectrum.
The researchers comprised a coalition of individuals from universities across the United States, led by Morgan Shields of the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. They describe how most individuals, regardless of political affiliation, are supportive of increasing access to voluntary treatment:
“The findings of this cross-sectional study indicate that the public largely supports policies that expand voluntary, community-based services, a position shared by members of all political parties. In comparison, the public is less supportive of involuntary policies, although Republicans report more support than others.”
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Bi-partisan rhetoric? Even though governing policies adopted from prior years shape the framework of laws, one’s behavior may not know how to comprehend the infinite rules of checks and balances. Until now, when the implementation and monitoring is being dismissed by a aged human, who through corrupted behaviors and belief in filing legal challenges could hold higher truths of social justice at bay throws the scales of justice into an imbalance. More than a chemical imbalance, who, but We, the People can advance and realize a better economy shaped by collaboration and co-operative endeavors. The mindset of competitiveness creeps in to the process by which employees and citizens are fearful of speaking truth to power!
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Doctors -including psychiatrists – have a very strong hold on academic and governmental institutions as well as the corporate world.
Most people in government totally believe the lies (or propaganda) that is a part of this control operation. The general population it appears is not so sure about all this. Essentially they are saner than the people trying to run this world.
The corporate world left to its own devices would simply come in with paddy wagons or machine guns and wipe out the homeless camps. Sending them for “treatment” is just a more sanitary way to accomplish the same thing, since most “treatments” basically kill the being, if not the body.
These people worship the body, and that’s not something many “normal people” can afford to do. However, it is considered “sensible” and “scientific” to worship bodies. So people who want to be “sensible and scientific” resist the obvious need to balance our understandings about the body with better understandings of Spirit.
The key missing ingredient is a better understanding of Spirit. And many “normal” people know this. They know, as beings, that they want to be free, not controlled in some sort of ultra-sanitary police state. That’s why they are here on Earth. They didn’t fit into those ultra-controlled societies that sent them here, and they don’t want that re-created here on Earth.
Government, academia – and certainly Corporate – have lost their way in this regard. They have totally lost their way and they will become our suppressors – many already have – if we let them. The homeless are just the “low-hanging fruit.” They will enslave us all if they are given the chance.
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if you stood, or now stand against, the forced and/or coerced drugging of the Covid debacle. You should also stand against all forced and coerced drugging of any person, by the scientifically “invalid” “mental health industries.”
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Although I do understand the need for brief extended treatment for alcohol encephalitis, which is not even in the DSM (although I do know “Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, [is] recognized under alcohol-related disorders.”)
But that is an example of why the medical community’s habit of renaming things only causes miscommunication issues. Thankfully my loved one’s doctor spoke the truth, in English, not psychiatric medical language.
I found the best treatment for alcohol encephalitis is with a low dose of lithium, for a short period of time … so long as your loved one agrees to stop drinking too much. And with the truth spoken in English, as opposed to the reality denying, made up psychiatric named disorders.
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