Psychiatric Illness Has Behavioral Symptoms
In Texas, persons with serious psychiatric disorders are jailed and forcibly treated so their competency can be restored and they can be tried for what they did while incompetent. Make that make sense. Conservatives have sold us the simpleminded paradigm that behavioral symptoms of illness deserve punishment rather than empathy.
#Justice #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #Texas #Crime #Homelessness #Morality #Ethics
https://sanantonioreport.org/as-state-hospital-waitlists-grow-bexar-county-jail-fills-the-gap-in-mental-health-treatment/
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