The most insane chart you'll see today

[excalibur]

Indeed.

All so we can 'feel good'. It was the original virtue signaling.

Look, locking up the mentally deranged doesn't make me happy, but it is necessary for a civil society.

 

[1srelluc]

Indeed.

All so we can 'feel good'. It was the original virtue signaling.

Look, locking up the mentally deranged doesn't make me happy, but it is necessary for a civil society.

LOL....Looks like something citygator would post.

 

[DGS49]

See, these fukkers can do fine if we just put them out into the community, make sure they take their meds and put them on welfare or disability. They will be fine! IN fact, the ACLU assured us that it is a violation of their civil rights to keep them institutionalized, and they filed scores of lawsuits to get them out "on the street."

Homeless? What's that?

Why does nobody ever think to hold the ACLU and other civil libertarian organizations to task for the gross harms that they have done to the country?

You can thank them for rampant pornography as well (and all of the related problems). THey are the ones who discovered, 200 years after America's founding that censorship - which had gone on since before the country even existed - was a violation of the First Amendment.

Nobody holds them accountable.

 

[scruffy]

What is the solution?

Sanctuary districts?

 

[JGalt]

Indeed.

All so we can 'feel good'. It was the original virtue signaling.

Look, locking up the mentally deranged doesn't make me happy, but it is necessary for a civil society.

It's far worse than that.

"AI Overview"

"Nearly 60 million American adults—approximately 1 in 5, or 23% to 24% of the population—experience mental illness annually. In 2024, an estimated 61.5 million adults in the U.S. had a mental health condition, with 14.6 million (5.6%) experiencing a serious mental illness.

Key Statistics on Mental Health in the U.S.

• Overall Prevalence: Nearly 60 million U.S. adults (23.1%–23.4%) experience any mental illness (AMI) in a given year.
• Serious Mental Illness: Roughly 5.6% of adults (about 14.6 million people) have a serious mental illness that severely impacts daily functioning.
• Youth Impact:
  Approximately 1 in 7 youth (ages 6-17) experience a mental health disorder
  .
• • Treatment Gap: Despite high numbers, fewer than half of adults with a mental illness receive treatment, and only about 1 in 4 youth with severe depression receive consistent care.
  • Highest Risk Groups: Young adults (18–25) have the highest prevalence (36.2%), followed by those reporting two or more races (35.2%).
  • Common Conditions: Anxiety disorders are the most common, affecting over 42.5 million adults, while 22.5 million experience major depression.
  • Lifelong Impact: Almost 46% of Americans will meet the criteria for a diagnosable mental health condition at some point in their lives."

 

[excalibur]

See, these fukkers can do fine if we just put them out into the community, make sure they take their meds and put them on welfare or disability. They will be fine! IN fact, the ACLU assured us that it is a violation of their civil rights to keep them institutionalized, and they filed scores of lawsuits to get them out "on the street."

Homeless? What's that?

Why does nobody ever think to hold the ACLU and other civil libertarian organizations to task for the gross harms that they have done to the country?

You can thank them for rampant pornography as well (and all of the related problems). THey are the ones who discovered, 200 years after America's founding that censorship - which had gone on since before the country even existed - was a violation of the First Amendment.

Nobody holds them accountable.

Michael Savage has railed against the ACLU being dragged into court for decades.

 

[Woodznutz]

Don't conflate the mentally ill with the insane. Mentally ill people are often somewhat functional and are generally harmless. The insane and criminally insane are a different matter.

Until Reagan shut it down my city had a "halfway house" for the mentally ill. Different people had different rules imposed on them. All were free to leave during the day. All had to sign out and tell where they were going and sign in by a certain hour in the evening. Some could leave alone; others had to have a family member or friend sign them out. When the facility suddenly closed many of the residents had nowhere to go and many wound up on the street.

 

[sparky]

What is the solution?

~S~

 

[Stryder50]

Indeed.

All so we can 'feel good'. It was the original virtue signaling.

Look, locking up the mentally deranged doesn't make me happy, but it is necessary for a civil society.

Label missing on my screen.
Top chart is total USA populations.

You can bet the proportion of "insane" would be at least equal today, only on the streets and not in asylums getting some form of treatment.
Actually I'd beat the proportion/ratio is even higher today since the nation had no where near the illegal drugs use in 1955 that we see in 1925.

 

[struth]

Don't conflate the mentally ill with the insane. Mentally ill people are often somewhat functional and are generally harmless. The insane and criminally insane are a different matter.

Until Reagan shut it down my city had a "halfway house" for the mentally ill. Different people had different rules imposed on them. All were free to leave during the day. All had to sign out and tell where they were going and sign in by a certain hour in the evening. Some could leave alone; others had to have a family member or friend sign them out. When the facility suddenly closed many of the residents had nowhere to go and many wound up on the street.

When did Reagan shut down your city’s half way house? And how?

 

[Woodznutz]

When did Reagan shut down your city’s half way house? And how?

Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness - Salon.com

As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations

www.salon.com

 

[struth]

Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness - Salon.com

As president and governor of California, the GOP icon led the worst policies on mental illness in generations

www.salon.com

Why does salon blame Reagan for an act signed by Carter into law?

 

[Woodznutz]

Why does salon blame Reagan for an act signed by Carter into law?

"One month prior to the election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act, which had proposed to continue the federal community mental health centers program, although with some additional state involvement. Consistent with the report of the Carter Commission, the act also included a provision for federal grants “for projects for the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health,” an indication of how little learning had taken place among the Carter Commission members and professionals at NIMH. With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states. The CMHC program had not only died but been buried as well. An autopsy could have listed the cause of death as naiveté complicated by grandiosity."

The Community Mental Health Center in my city was closed when Reagan scrapped Carter's Mental Health Systems Act. My state used the 'block grant' money for other things. The residents of the center were turned out onto the streets.

 

[struth]

"One month prior to the election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act, which had proposed to continue the federal community mental health centers program, although with some additional state involvement. Consistent with the report of the Carter Commission, the act also included a provision for federal grants “for projects for the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health,” an indication of how little learning had taken place among the Carter Commission members and professionals at NIMH. With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states. The CMHC program had not only died but been buried as well. An autopsy could have listed the cause of death as naiveté complicated by grandiosity."

The Community Mental Health Center in my city was closed when Reagan scrapped Carter's Mental Health Systems Act. My state used the 'block grant' money for other things. The residents of the center were turned out onto the streets.

The GoP didn’t take over the dems still had Congress

This was a Dem bill that took effect

 

[Woodznutz]

The GoP didn’t take over the dems still had Congress

This was a Dem bill that took effect

The centers were closed and Reagan got the blame.

 

[Hafar1014]

Indeed.

All so we can 'feel good'. It was the original virtue signaling.

Look, locking up the mentally deranged doesn't make me happy, but it is necessary for a civil society.

JFK shut them all down and that created the homeless. We dont have to lock them up. Many serious mental disorders can be treated out patient as long as they cant refuse treatment.

 

[Hafar1014]

The centers were closed and Reagan got the blame.

False JFK shut down the mental institutions after his cousin was abused in one. Reagan gave block grants to the states in a bi partisan bill but they never built the needed mental health centers

The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA) (also known as the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, Mental Retardation Facilities and Construction Act, Public Law 88-164, or the Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963) was an act to provide federal funding for community mental health centers and research facilities in the United States. This legislation was passed as part of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier.<a href="Community Mental Health Act - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a> It led to considerable deinstitutionalization.
Only half of the proposed centers were ever built; none was fully funded, and the act didn't provide money to operate them long-term. Some states closed expensive state hospitals, but never spent money to establish community-based care. Deinstitutionalization accelerated after the adoption of Medicaid in 1965. During the Reagan administration, the remaining funding for the act was converted into a mental-health block grants for states. Since the CMHA was enacted, 90 percent of beds have been cut at state hospitals, but they have not been replaced by community resources.<a href="Community Mental Health Act - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>

 

[Independent thinker]

Indeed.

All so we can 'feel good'. It was the original virtue signaling.

Look, locking up the mentally deranged doesn't make me happy, but it is necessary for a civil society.

What's insane is letting the mentally deranged roam around freely.

 

[Hafar1014]

What's insane is letting the mentally deranged roam around freely.

Its an act of cruelty and dangerous to us

 

[struth]

The centers were closed and Reagan got the blame.

But he wasn’t the one that passed or created the law