Author needs to read some Peter Breggin, Margaret Hagan, Thomas Szasz, Fred Baughman, Robert Whitaker, about mental illness. Psychiatry is a means of social control without due process protections. Stalin, Hitler and Mao all used it to silence dissidents. FBI employs behaviorists who make predictions about the future. Ahem! If all persons accused of mental illness were dangerous it would be a simple matter to incarcerate all of them. Police can have a person put away within a few hours. This essay is propaganda for the psychiatric industry with the backing of the pharmaceutical industry. Homelessness was caused by liberals who destroyed inner city flop houses, in the name of eliminating blight. Most great harms result from good intentions.
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Yet, the editors missed the significance of a small item in the same issue: the hospitals in the area had no beds available in their mental-health wards.
There is the story. The man who killed the young Muslims was quite obviously unbalanced, if not completely deranged, one of the 42.5 million Americans diagnosed with mental illness. He had no history of race or religious hatred but he did have a large cache of weapons in his rented condominium. He openly argued with his neighbors in the condo complex about parking their cars in the wrong spaces. The Muslim graduate students, it was reported, were quite aware of his sometimes intimidating complaints.
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Rather, the incident was another example of a terrifying danger lurking in everyday life in America: the thousands of potentially homicidal mentally-ill adults roaming around the country hearing voices or receiving radio signals from outer space through fillings in their teeth. Yet, even if the Chapel Hill killer or his family or friends sought help, the process is too daunting to try. And due to the volume of incidents occurring in the mentally ill community, there was no room to treat him
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Even if the mental wards were not full, the process for involuntary commitment in North Carolina (and most states) requires an elaborate procedure that includes contacting the clerk of court or a magistrate. If that process is completed, a law enforcement officer is brought in to take the allegedly mentally ill subject into custody for examination by a “qualified professional”, which could mean a social worker. If this person agrees, the patient is taken to a hospital, where the hospital physician determines whether or not to admit the subject. If admitted, the subject is called in for a hearing, which could take place in the hospital. The next step is for the doctor to decide if the subject stays in the hospital or is assigned to a group home in the community. Of course, if there are no beds, the option is jail or the subject returning home.
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In the 1970s, the mental health industry adopted the radical doctrine that society is to blame for mental illness, that it is a violation of human rights to incarcerate the insane. The result caused the closing down of mental hospitals across America, creating the “homeless problem” in the early 1980s.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/chapel_hill_murders_the_enemy_within.html
February 20, 2015
Chapel Hill Murders: The Enemy Within
By Bernie Reeves
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