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The press reported numerous examples of his racism, misogyny and fascistic values. A confabulator, liar, a cheat and a cruel and malignant narcissist. LONG BEFORE Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States of America, he showed us who he was. President Donald Trump has exhibited many signs of a dangerous mental condition during his time in the White House, writes Lyn Bender. "It says a lot about the administration's approach to mental health that the lead speaker at the White House Mental Health summit urged the audience to 'stand up against' mental health advocates," Mathis said.U.S. L.C., a 1999 Supreme Court ruling against "unjustified segregation" of disabled people. It is also contrary to federal law, including the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision," referring to Olmstead v. Mathis also said that Trump's comment about expanding psychiatric inpatient hospitals "flies in the face of good practice and all that we have learned over the course of several decades. She decried Jaffe's "instruction" to "'leave mental health people out of the room' when talking to criminal justice systems about people with psychiatric disabilities," saying "nothing good would come of that." Jennifer Mathis, JD, director of policy and legal advocacy for the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, told MedPage Today in an email that Jaffe's views reflect "an extreme fringe of thinking in mental health."
to many mental health groups who now believe that being psychotic and delusional is a right to be protected rather than an illness to be treated," Jaffe said. "In order to solve the issues of civil commitment and assisted outpatient treatment, we have to stand up to the to Bazelon, to Disability Rights.
He argued that mental health advocates have "misled" the police and mental health officials and that any real reform would have to be developed without mental health advocates in the room. and the author of Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill, also called for making it easier to access civil commitment. "Our civil rights have outweighed the self-evident need for treatment," he said.ĭJ Jaffe, executive director of Mental Illness Policy Org. If within that 4-hour window a person says, "You know what, I've thought better of it," and can confirm that he or she has access to food and a place to live, "that's it. The secretary also highlighted other actions geared towards increasing access to mental health services, including approving waivers to the Institutions for Medical Diseases (IMD) exclusion - the decades-old restriction that prevents Medicaid reimbursement for inpatient treatment in hospitals with more than 16 beds - in order to increase access to care. A SAMHSA spokesperson said funding amounts to $19 million, an increase of $4 million from fiscal 2019. "There is nothing compassionate about letting individuals with serious mental illness suffer from lack of food or housing because their illness prevents them from making rational decisions," he said, and nothing compassionate about letting them "suffer from symptoms that can cause them to be arrested, and often incarcerated, where they will not get the care and services they really need."Įleven million Americans had a serious mental illness in 2018, and one-third received no treatment, Azar said, citing data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).Īzar said the 2020 appropriations bill boosts SAMHSA's funding for assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), also known as court-ordered treatment.
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