Close your eyes and imagine, you are walking down the street and you come across a house. At first glance there is nothing special about this, probably just a regular house with people in it. You take a look across the street before looking back at the house, but instead of just a house there is a woman standing in the yard screaming about some obscene event that never happened or there is a person on the porch just staring at you. What you’re feeling is caution, fear, and confusion. “Well 25% to 55% of the rehabilitated patients relapsed into their old ways and habits after thirty days”(Harrow, Martin, and Thomas H. Jobe )... so why take the chance of being in that situation? The patients could be constantly observed and helped through an
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The state of being placed or kept in a residential institution. Institutionalization in this case is long-term care for people. These people have several illnesses or issues that can’t be fixed through self help and need medical treatment from a psychiatrist or psychologist. Why do people need to be institutionalized? Did you know that “250,000 people (⅓ of the homeless population and half of the prison population) have mental illnesses” (Amadeo, Kimberly)... that are not being treated? That means 250,000 people have mental illnesses that are not being treated. Not only the people who are homeless and have an illnesses aren’t being treated but could also do something that would cause them to end up in jail, which would add to the number of patients being left without medical help. Instead of getting them the help they need, we are going to lock them behind bars. Nice going humanity. How does this effect us, as people and a country? Well the deinstitutionalization which happened in 1955 is related to the number of mass murders per year and other horrible events. “Since 1979 there has been 20 mass murders a year on average. J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D. is a forensic psychologist who studied patients, that have been the cause of such cases. Found out that mass murderers suffer mental illnesses that range from chronic psychotic disturbances, and schizophrenia to paranoid disorders” (Amadeo, Kimberly). All very serious illnesses and people are just walking around
The state of being placed or kept in a residential institution. Institutionalization in this case is long-term care for people. These people have several illnesses or issues that can’t be fixed through self help and need medical treatment from a psychiatrist or psychologist. Why do people need to be institutionalized? Did you know that “250,000 people (⅓ of the homeless population and half of the prison population) have mental illnesses” (Amadeo, Kimberly)... that are not being treated? That means 250,000 people have mental illnesses that are not being treated. Not only the people who are homeless and have an illnesses aren’t being treated but could also do something that would cause them to end up in jail, which would add to the number of patients being left without medical help. Instead of getting them the help they need, we are going to lock them behind bars. Nice going humanity. How does this effect us, as people and a country? Well the deinstitutionalization which happened in 1955 is related to the number of mass murders per year and other horrible events. “Since 1979 there has been 20 mass murders a year on average. J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D. is a forensic psychologist who studied patients, that have been the cause of such cases. Found out that mass murderers suffer mental illnesses that range from chronic psychotic disturbances, and schizophrenia to paranoid disorders” (Amadeo, Kimberly). All very serious illnesses and people are just walking around