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F4ilsafe t1_iythigp wrote

Reply to comment by petitebrownie in What forced hospitalization feels like in New York City, as Mayor Adams pushes for more by psychothumbs

They have the luxury of quitting. The average person does not have the luxury of quitting walking on sidewalks or using the subway. SOMETHING has to be done. That being said, I feel for the docs/nurses/social workers. ERs are not designed to deal with psychotic patients.

There has to be a happy medium between the asylums of the 1950s and the situation we have now.

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InfernalTest t1_iyvhcpy wrote

hm well there isnt much thats being done FOR psychotic patients beyond drugging them up when they do get into the system.

there isnt a lot of one to one therapy for severe psychotics that has worked to make them functional ...and drugging them is only as good as the ability to administer the drugs ....

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petitebrownie t1_iz8iohc wrote

Lol luxury of quitting? You clearly know nothing about those in medicine. Ask any healthcare worker working in a NYC ER right now. If we had the luxury to quit many of us would have already.

And that being said, do I feel safe walking in the streets of NYC, taking the subway late night after a shift? Absolutely not. But I clearly don’t think the solution is “dumping them in the hospital” as if that’s the only place to deal with social work issues/homelessness. I do agree however the mentally ill should be institutionalized especially if they’re a threat to society but the reality is admitting a psychiatric patient is often not as easy as it sounds. Often times they’re eventually discharged. Better solutions are needed and this is just gonna cause even more chaos in our understaffed ERs right now.

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