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politicat

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15. Please talk about it.

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:26 AM

Dec 2012

You know how in pro-choice circles we say, "trust women"?

In advocacy circles, we're just getting to that point of saying "trust the patients."

I agree that advertising is a problem -- across the board, but in healthcare and mental health care especially. One, it diverts essential funds. Two, it's manipulative, and is most effective in situations where the target of the advertising has the least defenses against it.

I'm really glad you got effective help, and I'm sorry it came wrapped in a big ole shit sandwich. And if nobody else has said this... It's perfectly reasonable to feel ambivalent about your experiences; ambivalence is a sign that all sectors are working.

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Dispatch from the trenches of public mental health. [View all] politicat Dec 2012 OP

Wow theinquisitivechad Dec 2012 #1

Having been on both sides of this conflagration, cliffordu Dec 2012 #2

Boy, I could tell some stories... joeunderdog Dec 2012 #3

+1000 politicat Dec 2012 #18

Politicat, I read your comment last night and it is just as awful to read it again tonight. nenagh Dec 2012 #4

All systems are accretive - policy collects like barnacles on a hull. politicat Dec 2012 #17

Yup, nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #5

Thank you, politicat. K&R nt Mnemosyne Dec 2012 #6

"...half of the client load is situational." Fire Walk With Me Dec 2012 #7

Thanks! I <3 Project Los Angeles 50 politicat Dec 2012 #16

Big KR. I have a friend who's a social worker who told me a similar story. The system is about HiPointDem Dec 2012 #8

K&R'd! snot Dec 2012 #9

K & R ellisonz Dec 2012 #10

No, it's not. politicat Dec 2012 #13

What? You mean it's not like on TV? lindysalsagal Dec 2012 #11

+1000 politicat Dec 2012 #14

My experience was not in the public mental health system, with a private physician and hospital. Denninmi Dec 2012 #12

Please talk about it. politicat Dec 2012 #15

Thanks. Denninmi Dec 2012 #19

So much of the system is geared to handing out drugs. So little to other therapies. KittyWampus Dec 2012 #20

so... orthopedics are geared towards handing out casts, and optometry towards glasses. politicat Dec 2012 #21