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When I was working with the homeless, I realized that many people who were living in the streets were there because of mental problems -not drugs, etc.; not serious enough to be institutionalized, but too evident to function in today's 'normal' society. It's so sad, and sometimes scary. I wouldn't want to be on that jury either.
posted by
adnohr
on December 17, 2010 at 1:24 AM
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Mental Health all over the world is still floundering around in the 19th
century somewhere.We put sick people in jail? yes when they need mental help.....perhaps they can never live alone in society but we closed all the places where they could get help and now the only alternatives are living on the streets and jail.I get somad..........
posted by
Kabu
on December 16, 2010 at 7:50 PM
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PatB
I think if authorities were allowed to remove the brains of these people to study them, then they wouldn't be any more problem.
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 16, 2010 at 7:04 PM
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When Carl was in Iraq
There was a teenage boy who showed up at my door. He was there to help because my husband was a soldier, he told me. I could tell he wasn't 100% "normal" though he was fairly functionable. He had a passion for the troops and in his mind he HAD to come help me. After talking with his mother, I gave him little things to "help" such as I would ask him to bring the empty trash cans from the road for me or get him to help me pick tomatoes from the garden. It made him feel good and I didn't mind spending a little time with him as he was sweet.
I got to know his family and I will admit, I never once saw a violent moment with this boy. He did have tunnel vision which could be a little confusing at times. If he was to cross the street you have to give instructions such as
"Stop at the curb, look both ways, if any cars are coming WAIT (his mother once forgot that and he almost got his by a car) and when there are no cars coming you can cross the street."
I am not sure where or how this boy might have gotten the idea to kill someone and I am not so sure that I agree with the defense.
posted by
Bel_
on December 16, 2010 at 5:56 PM
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Pat
That's the problem with 'experts' - one third maintains it's x, one third claims it's y, and the rest
knows it's really z. (And being something of an 'expert' myself, athough not in that area, I 'know' whereof I speak; you might call me an expert on experts, but of course many other experts on experts wouldn't agree with my expert views, LOL.) In the meantime, common sense as well as the notion of personal responsibility disappear in a fog of 'expertise'...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 16, 2010 at 10:04 AM
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