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1. Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental Disorders 2. Access to Basic Mental Health Care 3. Mental Health Assessments in Accordance with Internationally Accepted Principles 4. Provision of the Least Restrictive Type of Mental Health Care 5. Self-Determination 6. Right to be Assisted in the Exercise of Self-Determination 7. Availability of Review Procedure 8. Automatic Periodical Review Mechanism 9. Qualified Decision-Maker 10. Respect of the Rule of Law (MENTAL HEALTH CARE LAW: TEN BASIC PRINCIPLES, Division of Mental Health and Prevention of Substance Abuse, World Health Organization Geneva, 1996).

Any mental illness is frightening to have, especially during the early stages when you don't know understand what's happening to your mind and body.The initial symptoms are usually vague, and it can be difficult to get the right help in a timely manner when you don't know where to start.It's a pretty vulnerable state to be in, so it can also be frightening to be around people who don't understand what's going on with you either.This is why people with mental illness are considered a “vulnerable population” in health policy and ethics.Indeed, when it comes to safety, people with mental illness are much more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators.Pretty scary, right?And now to answer the question directly: the most frightening mental illnesses are the ones you know nothing about.Please sign up for a Mental Health First Aid workshop near you or a Psychological First Aid course online.[1]It's like first aid for the brain:It could save a life.It could be your own.The best time to learn about mental health treatment and recovery is before you need it!You will learn preventive strategies and crisis response should you or your loved ever experience mental illness or distress. (Statistically, chances are you will).And instead of being afraid of people with mental illness, perhaps you can be a “Good Samaritan” rather than a bully or bystander.Additional health education resources for mental illnesses include:NAMIDBSANIMHSAMHSAMental Health America (MHA)World Health Organization (WHO)Mental Health on The MightyThanks for your interest in mental health and mental illness.Please don't use language that may be stigmatizing or offensive.Say No to Stigma!Footnotes[1] Mental Health First Aid USA

If you want to blame someone for the problem you have to follow why it became this way.There really is a formula for why we have what we have today.Geraldo Rivera+Well-meaning people+Short-sighted politicians___________= today's homeless problemI am not blaming Geraldo Rivera, but you can’t understand the root cause of what is going on now without mentioning him.I believe he works at Fox news now and if you’re younger-ish that is probably what you know him as. However In the 70s and 80s Geraldo Rivera was a pretty popular guy nationally.He started off humble enough. He was hired by WABC-TV in 1970 as a reporter for Eyewitness News. In 1972 though, he really took off. He garnered national attention and won a Peabody Award (back when people actually paid attention to that sort of thing) for his report on the neglect and abuse of patients with intellectual disabilities at Staten Island's Willowbrook State School. Willowbrook State School - WikipediaGeraldo Rivera uncovered a host of deplorable conditions, including overcrowding, inadequate sanitary facilities, and physical and sexual abuse of residents by members of the school's staff.The exposé, entitled Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace,[12] garnered national attention and won a Peabody Award for Rivera.[13] Rivera later appeared on the nationally televised Dick Cavett Show with film of patients at the school. As a result of the overcrowding and inhumane conditions, a class-action lawsuit was filed against the State of New York by the parents of 5,000 residents of Willowbrook in federal court on March 17, 1972. This was known as New York ARC v. Rockefeller Geraldo Rivera - WikipediaThat is the first part of my math equation. The second part is “well-meaning people.” Public outcry from well-meaning people led to the closure of Willowbrook in 1987.A note: It is hard for someone under the age of thirty five to realize how connected the public was back in the days of 3 TV channels and no internet. When you heard the expression “everyone is talking about” everyone really was talking about it.The third part, “short-sighted politicians” occurred alongside well-meaning people.In 1975, a consent judgment was signed, and it committed New York state to improve community placement for the, now designated, "Willowbrook Class". The publicity generated by the case was a major contributing factor to the passage of a federal law — Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act - WikipediaThe public outcry and politicians of the day were so outraged that they smashed the state mental institutions before creating an alternative.The result of all of this was the de-institutionalization movement in state mental health systems, to a shift towards 'community-based' treatment of the mentally ill, as opposed to long-term commitment in institutions.But the vast majority of released patients ended up homeless on the street. Congress had “encouraged the closing of state mental hospitals without any realistic plan regarding what would happen to the discharged patients,” notes Dr. Torrey, “especially those who refused to take medication they needed to remain well.”When community mental health clinics did start operating, they tended to treat the easiest-to-treat, not the hardest. A community health clinic is by its very nature not equipped to handle someone suffering from schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcoholism or a host of other problems the big institutions used to handle.The clinic saw “very few individuals with serious mental illnesses,” reported a young psychiatrist working in Santa Monica near LA. “Instead, the patients were people from the community with various personal crises.” Why California Keeps Making Homelessness WorseThere is disproportionally higher prevalence of mental disorders relative to other disease groups within homeless patient populations at both inpatient hospitals and hospital-based emergency departments.Since those large institutions are now mostly closed, those people that would have been in them before are the ones you read about defecating on the street, attacking people, standing in the middle of a busy road in traffic, walking around yelling at random people for no apparent reason, etc.“I’ve rarely seen a normal able-bodied able-minded non-drug-using homeless person who’s just down on their luck,” L.A. street doctor Susan Partovi told me. “Of the thousands of people I’ve worked with over 16 years, it’s like one or two people a year. And they’re the easiest to deal with.”Rev. Bales agrees. “One hundred percent of the people on the streets are mentally impacted, on drugs, or both,” he said.While there was a push for community based care before Riviera, his TV special was the game changer. Over the next two decades, state mental hospitals would empty out. But the vast majority of released patients ended up homeless on the street.That is my answer but I realize some people won’t like that because I haven't really stated an opinion. People like a good guy and a bad guy….. so I will be that bad guy.I fully realize this will be an unpopular opinion but what should have happened is the facilities should never have been closed, they should have just been better regulated.I have worked at a halfway house and I am sad to say a good 30–40% of the prisoners that came through those doors need special care. A lot of them have little to no reasoning ability. They are not drooling psychopaths but almost half had the reasoning ability of a child. Just about all of them will be back in jail soon, not because they are bad people but because they are incapable of understanding consequences and have little to no impulse control.Some need help and some will never, ever, ever fit into society. Some of these people need life time care.There is a local (I will call her Jane) homeless woman here that is about as famous as a homeless person can be. The rumor is she was actually a school teacher at one time, met a guy who got her hooked on drugs and hasn't been the same since. I don’t always believe these kind of stories but in this case there might be something to that. When I was security at a bank she would come in and sometimes in the winter the manager would have me give her cocoa. One time a well dressed couple showed up that could have been her parents. The woman was very distraught and the man’s eyes were full of tears through the whole interaction. It was very sad.What is more sad however is “Jane” roams the city in search of money for drugs. Jane will perform oral sex for as little as 5 dollars and I imagine in a metro of over a million she is doing this every day, 7 days a week, several times a day, 365 days of the year.Not JaneMost of the time what people mean by the homelessness problem is really a drug problem and a mental illness problem. ”The problem is we don’t know if you’re psychotic or just on meth,” said Dr. Partovi. Why California Keeps Making Homelessness WorseJane has probably spread more disease than someone with an airborne disease in Times Square on New years eve.Jane is a danger to herself and the general public. Jane is not going to get better. Ever. Its not going to happen. Those drugs so many young people think are harmless have irreparably destroyed her brain. You can hardly understand her when she talks to you. You can just look at her and tell something is off.There are hundreds of thousands of Janes roaming the streets as I type this. That number of Janes grows with the population.In the USA 2.5 to 3 percent of the general population is mentally retarded, this totals from 5.5 to 6.7 million people (1980 census).According to a report prepared jointly by the World Health Organization and the World Bank About 15 percent of the world's population (some 785 million people) has a significant physical or mental disability. 15% worldwide have physical or mental disabilityPeople like the aforementioned should be kept somewhere under lock and key and should have 24 hour supervision. For their own safety as well as that of the general public. Letting them roam the streets does no one any good.The 44,000 people living, eating, and defecating on the streets of L.A. have brought rats and medieval diseases including typhus. Garbage is everywhere. Experts fear the return of cholera and leprosy.Some of these people are not looking for a home and there is no rehabilitating them. The best we can do is make their time on earth comfortable and keep them safe.