This is what needs to happen to proactively help Mental Patients

First they need to be assigned a Legal Advocate.
Somebody who will bat for them.
Not just someone on the Gravy Chain but someone who is genuinely concerned!
People that present as Mentally Ill are often identity factors in dysfunctional families and just filling them with psychiatric medicine and sending them home is, in my opinion, just another abuse.

If people want to work then, for God's sake, give them work!

I trained for 2 decades to get work but knew all along that where ever I tried to find work I would not be accepted. I could have made a very good nurse or Legal Secretary or even just a humble mother but even that opportunity was robbed from me. The discrimination is so overwhelming that even the sane could not survive. And everywhere I look I see the toll that persecution reeks on the mentally ill. I am not the only shattered spirit living in fear of the next attack on one's self esteem.

And if giving people work would shrink the crime rate why not give people work. It is ridiculous to give people work inside prisons when we could give people work outside of prison and shrink the crime rate and the number of Victims of Crime.

I'm having so much fun!

Why don't I want to live?

Well actually I do but I would be happier in Heaven than be judged as a complete looser when I wasn't given a chance in the first place.

People are so disrespectful of anyone they perceive as weak that, on that count, we kid ourselves as being Civilised but we react like Animals.

In a truly Civilised Society we would not condemn so quickly those that are not able to compete at quite the same level.

I have served three consecutive life sentences as a Mental Patient and I am really pissed.

In fact, most people that suffer from Mental Illness are highly intelligent. I believe that if you were to give these people a decent chance in the beginning Society would only stand to reap huge rewards. As it stands at the moment they are condemned and the Human suffering is enormous.

To Live like a Dog

When I was sixteen I wrote a Speech on Euthanasia and after enduring 30 years of existing with Bi- Polar I think I should be entitled to Euthanasia when the going gets too tough. Some Mental Health Patients manage to live relatively normal and happy lives but for those that are just subsisting surely that suffering should have limitation. Mental Patients have very little rights and are walked over and taken advantage of in almost every corner of society. Mental suffering is big business for Drug Companies and the Medical Profession and a burden on Society in general so why not let people get off the bus. Instead we invest lots of money into propping people up who don't want to be propped up. Comprehensive care needs to be given when people present rather than the bottom of the cliff approach. Mental Patients are not just Statistics. They are Human Beings that should be allowed the Power to vote on their treatment after ten years by choosing or not choosing Euthanasia. I'm sure that if there was a limit to the amount of suffering these people had to endure services would improve tenfold at the beginning. Why should a Human Being be subjected to interminable suffering when they are shunned in nearly every corner of society?

I invite your view!