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About the homeless with mental illness...

These days we have advanced medication which can cure I'd say 95% of all mental illnesses. So these people would only be in hospital a few weeks to get onto the right medication.

Then get them into temporary housing - not a shelter where they have to beg/pray to eat, but just a normal house.

They should ideally be on social security while ill, but work if they are able.



While I'm not a psychiatric professional, I do associate with several people in that field, and I'm calling shenanigans on your numbers. I'd say:

"These days we have advanced medications, which can help with some of the symptoms of perhaps 25% of mental illnesses. Effectiveness will dramatically vary by person, and only works if the person continues to take the medication as directed (something that is very often outside the ability of a mentally ill person on their own). Also, many of these medications can cause health issues, addiction, toxicity, interactions with other medications and drugs, and need to be monitored on a frequent basis by a medical professional in order to fine tune the dosage, and look out for early warning signs of serious side effects."

Which isn't nearly as helpful. Unfortunately.


Okay, the number was based on how many people I knew in hospital who got better.

I'll admit that my statistic is made up, but I think the rest of my comment is reasonable.




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