Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc.

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Mad in America

JULY 17, 2024

My first job after college was on a community mental health treatment team, where we worked with people diagnosed with serious mental illness who had been long-term street homeless. Broadly, it was driven by well-documented abuse and neglect in asylums, spiraling hospital costs, and an overly optimistic faith in new medications.

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

Yet, in many of America’s underfunded and under-resourced community-based systems, it is often impossible for people to access care until and unless they are in a crisis. A previous version of the bill said that such documents would be “considered”; in the final version, that word was crossed out and changed to “honored.”

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