frigidweirdo
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Here's a video of a guy who got lucky, a few times.
The guy has paranoid, mania, hallucinations and bipolar disorder. He got lucky because he was adopted by a family who brought him up well, but he still tired to kill himself at 17.
Now, many people don't get this support. They don't go and get a foster family. Often they're with a single mother who may share some of the same symptoms, have the same problems, and they're alone trying to bring up a kid who is also struggling and they don't understand how to deal with these problems.
The kid goes off the rails. Commits crime and ends up in prison.
An estimated 25% of people have some sort of mental problems.
http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibt...ed/public/2015/05/27/mental-illness-jails.png
About 50% of inmates in US prisons have mental problems. This is double the number of people who have mental problems.
Depressive Disorders seem to land a lot of people in prisons, along with Bipolar, Mania as the guy in the video had. That's 33% of prisoners in prisons have Depression.
http://www.sor.govoffice3.com/verti...F05648C7}/uploads/Foster_Care_PDF_12-8-11.pdf
How many kids who have been in foster care end up in prison?
About 75% according to this article, with the most likely to go to prison those who spent 1-5 years in foster care.
The US prefers to spend money on locking such people up rather than dealing with their problems.
In the US everyone can make it. The reality is no, not everyone can make it. If they had the right care, the right support system, the right education growing up, then yes, they might be able to make it. But kids with such issues, growing up in inner city areas, or growing up without support, are far more likely to commit crime and end up in prison where no one gives a shit about them any more.
Nothing will change because the people in charge, the people you elected, they don't care. Prison looks good. It's spending money on dealing with a problem that people can actually see. They can't see mental problems, they can see murders, they can see theft, burglary, rape, assault, this all makes sense to them, but mental problems they don't understand. The voters might even have mental problems themselves but are trying to avoid acknowledging their own problems.
The guy has paranoid, mania, hallucinations and bipolar disorder. He got lucky because he was adopted by a family who brought him up well, but he still tired to kill himself at 17.
Now, many people don't get this support. They don't go and get a foster family. Often they're with a single mother who may share some of the same symptoms, have the same problems, and they're alone trying to bring up a kid who is also struggling and they don't understand how to deal with these problems.
The kid goes off the rails. Commits crime and ends up in prison.
An estimated 25% of people have some sort of mental problems.
http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibt...ed/public/2015/05/27/mental-illness-jails.png
About 50% of inmates in US prisons have mental problems. This is double the number of people who have mental problems.
Depressive Disorders seem to land a lot of people in prisons, along with Bipolar, Mania as the guy in the video had. That's 33% of prisoners in prisons have Depression.
http://www.sor.govoffice3.com/verti...F05648C7}/uploads/Foster_Care_PDF_12-8-11.pdf
How many kids who have been in foster care end up in prison?
About 75% according to this article, with the most likely to go to prison those who spent 1-5 years in foster care.
The US prefers to spend money on locking such people up rather than dealing with their problems.
In the US everyone can make it. The reality is no, not everyone can make it. If they had the right care, the right support system, the right education growing up, then yes, they might be able to make it. But kids with such issues, growing up in inner city areas, or growing up without support, are far more likely to commit crime and end up in prison where no one gives a shit about them any more.
Nothing will change because the people in charge, the people you elected, they don't care. Prison looks good. It's spending money on dealing with a problem that people can actually see. They can't see mental problems, they can see murders, they can see theft, burglary, rape, assault, this all makes sense to them, but mental problems they don't understand. The voters might even have mental problems themselves but are trying to avoid acknowledging their own problems.