When I hear Americans talk about there being a mental health crisis, I just got to ask, you possibly can’t want to return to the pre Regan way of indefinitely imprisoning neurodivergent people? (hexbear.net)

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In america a suicide hotline number is more likely to kill you than yourself, Regan was a bad person obviously but it’s a good thing the shitty mental healthcare we have isn’t another branch of the prison industrial complex. Do you have any faith in the government in doing it right? If not perhaps the left should advocate against such things. We should only be advocating for imprisonment politics if he had full control over the nation itself.

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[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

Not at all. Imprisonment under guise of mental health is way too easy to abuse, for example perhaps someone had a serious episode of a teen and is now many years later a whistleblower, rights advocate or merely the wrong minority and because of their history as a teen and HIPPA being a joke that's a sentence of life imprisonment for political reasons under a false pretense that no one will challenge successfully.

Anyway, most of the people I've seen advocating for that just don't like seeing the neurodivergent or different in some way because it makes them feel bad, simple as.

[-] bleepbloopbop@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

yeah honestly nothing scares me more than being imprisoned for my mental health. And I'm pretty tame really. But the threat of that is not only not helping people, its actively an impediment for getting treatment, and bringing back asylums would magnify that fear. Getting mental health treatment in a society that has involuntary commitment is a HUGE trust exercise and encourages people to lie to their doctors for fear of getting committed/put on a psych hold