A Look At The Mental Hospital Problem(s)

Dear my lovely readers,

I hope you are doing well, and you are in peace, and may the Holy Most High send you many blessings!!!!

So in the world we live in today you often hear stories, or see on the news how a person did some horrible act that had mental problems, and you ask well why was this person not in the mental hospital, and the reason for this is, because lots of times they were, but after only a week, or two the doctor(s) let that person go simply, because the person in that week seems fine, however the thing about that is sometimes it takes more than a week to truly see the real person.you see anyone can act a certain way, and fool people, and it takes a while to see the true them. It simply does not happen over night. Now you may be asking well why do they let people go so fast? Well the blame may actually not all fall on the shoulders of the mental hospital.

In lots of cities, and states (I don't know how it is in other countries, so I can only talk about the United States) the government, weather it's local or state, is not giving the finds needed to support the mental hospitals, so they can't afford to keep people too long, and they have no choice, but to let people go even if it is not a good thing.

Another problem is with the insurance companies. As many only allow the person to stay in the hospital for long, because they don't want to pay, and after the period ends in which they pay for the stay the hospitals let people go, because sadly it's about the money, and if the they are not making money off someone they simply will let them go, so they can get someone in they will get paid for. Maybe some of you are saying well they can give the people medication(s), and that should take care of them right? well that does not always work.

The problem I find with most medications for mental problems is most make the person a zombie, and that person seems to always be out of it. Another problem is lots of times the person will run out of meds, and then they become worse than before. I know of a few people that were on medication  but ran out, and got so bad they sadly throw them selves in front of a train. Maybe they will be able to improve medication, so it does not make you a zombie, and when you run out the fall is not so bad.

In the future (hopefully the very near future) I hope this is no long an issue, and the mental hospitals are able to keep those who need to be kept longer than a week, or two the time needed to truly help them, and let's hope they get the money, and support from the government they need, and please can the insurance companies stop worrying only about money, but instead taking care of the people, and maybe science can improve medications over time.

Thank you for your time,
I love you all deeply,
your friend,
VPK