Should the US reopen its mental hospitals? - /pol/ (#508233196) [Archived: 940 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: tbqSn4QaUnited States
6/21/2025, 11:48:07 PM No.508233196
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Anonymous ID: jv4qkf2vNew Zealand
6/22/2025, 12:00:25 AM No.508234161
>>508233196 (OP)
Yes
Anonymous ID: CynPcthEGermany
6/22/2025, 12:01:34 AM No.508234242
>>508233196 (OP)
that would be racist
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Anonymous ID: SDKLb1YaUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:02:42 AM No.508234329
>>508234242
it would be transphobic because it's a place to put trannies instead of women's prisons
Anonymous ID: iIKT2b2fUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:03:05 AM No.508234352
Yes.They never should have closed them...
Anonymous ID: fVX4b8HeCanada
6/22/2025, 12:05:35 AM No.508234516
Might as well, Mental hospitals have the benefit of holding people until they're at least maybe, possibly not going to relapse. Prisons are just 'how to commit crime better while hating the society that put you here' training centres.
Anonymous ID: QE4XDB0/Sweden
6/22/2025, 12:12:53 AM No.508235213
>>508233196 (OP)
Suddenly the emergence of the hippie culture makes sense.
Anonymous ID: vjWsx+ghUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:16:20 AM No.508235505
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>>508233196 (OP)
“[People] clearly believe that their passage through the legal system will somehow be easier if they are presumed insane. Which is a naive, yet somehow common misconception that many suspects make when facing serious charges. They have this notion that a plea of insanity will either lessen the severity of their punishment, or liberate them from it altogether. That instead of being sent to prison, they would simply be released back into society. Perhaps with a free psycho-therapeutic program to attend on the weekends. This is of course a far cry from reality. In the United States, if you’re found responsible for a serious offense, but also found not guilty of the crime by reason of insanity, you will be institutionalized at a high security psychiatric facility. These institutions are without question some of the darkest and most disturbing places in the system. And if you’re not actually suffering from the crippling affects of mental illness, living in this type of environment will be a mentally agonizing experience. The foresight of what occurs inside these units would make the majority wish to avoid them. But once you are in, it is very hard to get out. And you will have to serve the same, if not a greater amount, amount of time thag you would have had to serve at a regular prison. So to put it briefly, if you commit a serious offense and then pretend to be crazy in order to get away with it, your life from that point forward will be an extremely dark and uncomfortable existence. Whether you managed to fool the system or not.” -JCS Criminal Psychology
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Anonymous ID: zEWqnVZ3
6/22/2025, 12:17:07 AM No.508235566
>>508233196 (OP)
youre so naive it hurts, at least in jail your in for a real crime, in mental hospital youre in because some rabbi said youre mentally ill while trannies cut kids dicks off and walk free
Anonymous ID: gIjIT1xcUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:17:33 AM No.508235606
>>508233196 (OP)
mental institutions were funded by the government then got demonized into being defunded.
Anonymous ID: 1OJ3vk8iUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:20:51 AM No.508235875
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no. it's far cheaper to give them a pittance and then let them go live in the forest with the wolves or whatever.
Anonymous ID: FC+ntEq4United States
6/22/2025, 12:21:34 AM No.508235943
>>508233196 (OP)
Yes

Worst mistake closing them since we gave women the vote
Anonymous ID: vjWsx+ghUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:24:46 AM No.508236233
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>>508235505
This took a little effort to transcribe from the video, so I’m gonna samefag and compliment my efforts. Nice job, (you), people can read this quote because of (your) efforts. Thank you. You’re welcome
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Anonymous ID: 7zG+oSfSUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:26:26 AM No.508236374
No, prisons are profitable, mental hospitals are not.
Anonymous ID: 7zG+oSfSUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:28:08 AM No.508236525
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>>508236233
Protip in the future anon, you can look at the video transcriptions on any youtube video in the description.
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Anonymous ID: vO9FMsRSDenmark
6/22/2025, 12:28:52 AM No.508236591
>>508233196 (OP)
The entire world is the mental hospital anon. The sickly depressed people might be the only one sane
Anonymous ID: p9nkNB+2United States
6/22/2025, 12:30:14 AM No.508236723
>>508233196 (OP)
what were they doing 1970-1975?
Anonymous ID: vjWsx+ghUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:31:39 AM No.508236840
>>508236525
Ohh waow. The video this quote came from doesn’t have that feature. Least not on iPhone anyway. But I reckon I’ll use that feature elsewhere at other times. Thanks anon
Anonymous ID: p9nkNB+2United States
6/22/2025, 12:32:57 AM No.508236973
Whats the difference? everyone in mental hospitals just does retarded shit while theyre in there to the staff and other patients
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Anonymous ID: 79fJcvyDUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:33:30 AM No.508237028
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Why did they close?
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Anonymous ID: 7zG+oSfSUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:34:16 AM No.508237087
Why does /pol/ believe in mental illness? You know the DSM was created by insurance agencies right?
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Anonymous ID: F+eNHKtbUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:34:20 AM No.508237093
>>508233196 (OP)
Yes. But no liberal staff. Use Dirty Tricks, social media and the Wayback Machine to make sure.
Anonymous ID: gIjIT1xcUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:35:49 AM No.508237230
>>508236973
prisons give you slave labor
Anonymous ID: vjWsx+ghUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:35:55 AM No.508237238
>>508237087
My friend is diagnosed schizophrenic. Sometimes he thinks he’s god’s messenger and quite literally goes insane. I had to pick him up at 4:30 am one time because he jumped off his roof in an effort to please God and broke his ankle.
Anonymous ID: HNb5kOPaUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:37:02 AM No.508237327
>>508237087

Sauce?
Anonymous ID: igWzDWXBUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:37:11 AM No.508237342
>>508233196 (OP)
Crazy
Nigger
Storage
Anonymous ID: pE+yxLyoAustralia
6/22/2025, 12:39:59 AM No.508237570
>>508233196 (OP)
So ~1975 was the GOAT time to be alive in yhe US?
Anonymous ID: lID9zViwUnited States
6/22/2025, 12:42:03 AM No.508237745
>>508237028
>Why did they close?
Because activists started whining about how abusive they were and the ACLU took a bunch of cases to the Supreme Court, who then ruled that the government can't involuntarily institutionalize anyone unless they've been adjudicated as a threat to themselves or others.

And being so crazy that you don't take your meds, have breaks with reality, or can't even provide for/take care of yourself don't count as being a threat to yourself.
Anonymous ID: p9nkNB+2United States
6/22/2025, 12:43:49 AM No.508237918
What a waste of money, the most inhumane dogshit facility ive ever visited in my life was a group home (modern insane asylum) that costed 100$ a day per patient, you could put someone up in a white collar workers high end apartment apartment for less, somehow this was peak efficiency
Anonymous ID: Fq60VMr2Germany
6/22/2025, 12:45:12 AM No.508238043
>>508233196 (OP)
Mostly misleading. The issue is more complex due to divorce laws and other stuff like inheritance laws there was quite a bit of incentive to commit people there. Additionally there were certain chemicals widely used back than. It was also used as a political tool and pool to be used for medical experimentation much more extensively. The prison population is rising for multiple reasons demographic changes, integration (basically that’s also a factor which deracinates people), lose of social bonds in general. I could go on, but that’s basically the elevator pitch.