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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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

"there's a mental health crisis" doesn't mean retvrn.

a huge amount of mental health issues are caused or exacerbated into disability by economic precarity. guarantees for things like housing, food, and employment are possible under a liberal regime but i have no illusions that we would get any of that from this government without incredible violence. richest country in the world and where i grew up we have an entire middle school's worth of homeless students.

i'd love something more advanced than leeches and bloodletting but even the last-line brain surgery for depression is a goddamned coin flip and the shit along the way like SSRIs are only 30% to help and not have insufferable side effects. They might even have the serotonin hypothesis exactly backwards.

the crisis is the combination of capitalism wanting us to die and a healthcare system that literally does not know what the problems are or how to fix them, and the only solution is illegal-to-say adventure-time