Reasons for Admission to an Insane Asylum

[IQS.RLOW]

Because locking people away against their will where they can't be seen is the way of the left. Out of sight, out of mind- never mind their liberties...

[Black Orchid]

Some people need constant control and supervision which cannot always be carried out by loved ones at home. Others forfeit their 'liberties'.

In other words, there are many people who need to be institutionalised. Having them homeless and ranting around the streets is not a viable solution.

[Super Nova]

In other words, there are many people who need to be institutionalised. Having them homeless and ranting around the streets is not a viable solution.

It must be more cost effective...... otherwise we would do something about.

Government now depend on the free welfare groups and the good hearted people to care for them without the state having to fund it. If they commit crime they go to jail. Simplifies matters don't you think. You are either someone else's problem, sort yourself out or you are in jail. No ambiguity with this model.

[skippy]

Many homeless people have a mental Illness unfortunately it is a reflection on our society that we either ignore them or pretend they are homeless for other reasons.
You'd be surprised to see just how close many people are to homelessness. I work in this field and I read a report the other day that stated a large percentage of the Australian population are just two pay cheques away from homelessness.

[mantra]

The insane used to be locked away where they belong in the USA ... until Ronald Reagan came along. Now they are dumped on the streets or put in jail.

It's the same here. I've seen some of the US documentaries showing that a huge percentage of the inmates are mentally ill. Governments find it cheaper to imprison them than give them treatment - especially the US where they can feed the prisoners in some gaols for 50 cents a day.

Moantra would be committed for life.

I'm pretty sure she suffers from all of them and I bet she has a suitcase exactly like those, filled with old coke cans, cards and imaginary gifts from her imaginary children.

She keeps it under her old rocking chair.

It's funny that you actually believe that you're the epitome of sanity. You would have been shot or hung before they had a chance to figure out what was wrong with you.

[Black Orchid]

I read an article in the local newspaper recently stating that there's a new breed of homeless in some of Sydney's 'nicer' leafy suburbs. Once wealthy businessmen who have, for one reason or another, lost everything and are sleeping in parks and shops with shelter ie the PO box parts of Aus Post. The Salvation Army have also stated that many of the people who come to them for assistance now are wearing a nice suit and tie and carrying a briefcase. This is not good. Where are we heading?

As for the ones who suffer from severe mental illness, well we need to go back in time and provide institutionalised care for them for as long as it takes, if not forever.

[Black Orchid]

You would have been shot or hung before they had a chance to figure out what was wrong with you.

IQ you have to laugh that was funny

Probably lucky you were not born in the 1800s or early 1900s.

[IQS.RLOW]

If I was born back then, I would have been running the asylum and I would have had a chance to meet Mantra.

[mantra]

If I was born back then, I would have been running the asylum

That would be the stuff of nightmares. Imagine being greeted by you. There were probably plenty of twisted sadists working in the asylums back then who could do what they pleased and no-one cared about what they did to their victims. It didn't take much to put them there either - just the word of a husband or father to get rid of them. Thank God for the Sufragettes.

[Neferti]

Thank God for the Sufragettes.

I come from a long line of well educated, and very INDEPENDENT females. We didn't need to join a "feminist" group (or the Greens) to organise ourselves and lead full and happy lives away from the kitchen, or "marry well" to attain independence.