Our current mental health system is no system at all. At best, it is a patchwork of states providing too little care too late. At worst, it is at least 50 failed experiments with the most vulnerable, untreated individuals with a diagnosis of severe mental illness, living in a police state. Now is the time to pivot our advocacy and focus on the margins. What ails the majority is healed through the minority. Our imperfect system is ready for resources, infrastructure and most of all, compassion for those too sick to choose their own continuum of care.
Learning Objectives:
Illustrate that the mental health system is majority rule, minority suffer.
Report that individuals with a diagnosis of severe mental illness live in a police state.
Demonstrate that advocacy must begin in the margins.
Propose that imperfect people can make a perfect system.
