California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that makes it easier for authorities to compel treatment for people with mental illness or addiction issues. The proposal is partly aimed at addressing the state’s growing homelessness crisis.
if it was up to me I’d force everyone to submit to a mandatory psychiatric evaluation every 5 years. fail the evaluation and you’re locked into getting treatment - also mandatory.
it’s no different than getting a new drivers license when it expires. same buildings/process could easily be adapted.
Cool. So if you’re a woman living in a red state that. And your conservative Christian psychiatrist decides you wanting to leave your husband is insane, you’d be cool with being locked up?
Attitudes like this were common in psychiatry not even 100 years ago. 50 years ago being LGB was considered insane. Today, many states would use your law to lock up trans people until they get better. Even now women struggle with medical care because of Drs with outdated views. And people of color don’t trust Drs generally, but you want to give them more power to imprison people? Do you think that would reduce or improve the stigma of mental illness? Do you think it would encourage people to get help? To trust therapists?
eh, I dunno - force works really well
It does but… how are you going to screen everyone, are you going to leave it up to police discretion?
How does that work out most of the time?
if it was up to me I’d force everyone to submit to a mandatory psychiatric evaluation every 5 years. fail the evaluation and you’re locked into getting treatment - also mandatory.
it’s no different than getting a new drivers license when it expires. same buildings/process could easily be adapted.
Cool. So if you’re a woman living in a red state that. And your conservative Christian psychiatrist decides you wanting to leave your husband is insane, you’d be cool with being locked up?
Attitudes like this were common in psychiatry not even 100 years ago. 50 years ago being LGB was considered insane. Today, many states would use your law to lock up trans people until they get better. Even now women struggle with medical care because of Drs with outdated views. And people of color don’t trust Drs generally, but you want to give them more power to imprison people? Do you think that would reduce or improve the stigma of mental illness? Do you think it would encourage people to get help? To trust therapists?
many consider psychology and political science “fake” because they keep shifting the goalposts.