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Originally Posted by Miss Tick
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ental-patients
Now we will shuffle our most needy and vulnerable from state to state like a demented game of hot potato. A society without a social conscious is barely a society at all. These kinds of behaviors we are seeing more and more in our country is the fruit of the pathological fear of socialism planted in us by the controlling elite. When we even hear social programs, welfare, universal healthcare, we hear socialism. And somehow somewhere in our collective psyche we have come to accept the meme that a society that compassionately cares for all its people is a bad thing. But the rich controlling 98% of the wealth and all the power, well that's very very good for us.
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Yes! When I worked on an inpatient behavioral health unit years ago, this was happening back then, too.
Staff would call it "Greyhound therapy" or "bus therapy" whenever we would get an admit from out of state.
The poor, severely mentally ill patient would think that they were getting a free bus ride home and would wind up in CA.
Absolutely tragic. So sorry to read it is still going on. The severely and persistently mentally ill are the most vulnerable population of all.
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