Mental illness is a very serious and dear topic to me. I have a person very close to me who suffers from a mix of depressesion and schzophrenia. I read an article from www.the-signal.com/news, talking about cuts th mental health services.
It's amazing that we can spend over $40,000.00 a year to house a prisioner but cannot spend the $16,0000.00 a year to treat someone in need of mental health care that would potential benefit our whole society.
Santa Clarity Valley is currently going through some very viable cuts to their Department of Mental health. It's a tough battle for this community because the cuts would be going to fund care for children. But my thoughts are what good is that if the person who is caring for the child is mentally ill?
It's just not fair that this class of people is so over looked. People need to look at the benefits of helping the mentally ill instead of the cost. As I stated earlier it costs well over $40,000.00 a year to house a jail inmate and only a small fraction to help someone who needs mental health care. What the hell is wrong with our society? We'd rather pay for a jailbird, and let us keep in mind this inmate could be mentally ill, than just help pay for the care of a mentally ill person.
I guess when the people creating these legislatures to cut funding become personally affected maybe our society will see change. Until then the struggle continues...
No comments:
Post a Comment