The "Mental Health Cistern"

Long ago I coined the phrase that the "Mental Health System" was more like the "Mental Health Cistern". Somewhere I have the drawing of two psychiatrists flushing a fairy down a toilet. There have been improvements in the Mental Health system but they are generally token and the New Psychiatric care centres such as the Henry Bennett may as well be one huge toilet for the lack of sense of Asylum that they appropriate. Gone are the open grounds for people to roam in with a sense of safety and freedom from tyranny. Gone is the range of Occupational Therapy. Gone are the Dances. Gone is the sense of Community which is replaced by Confinement which, I believe, only helps to compound the distress of clients. Generally clients revolve between the community and the Psychiatric Ward. The Community is still, for the most part, Hostile, and does not differentiate between Victims and Forensic Criminals. The basic skeleton for integrating Psychiatric Patients is so faulty that most don't stand a chance in hostile, unwelcoming communities. For Christs Sake and I mean for Christs Sake give the poor Bastards Work if you are going to let them live in the Community so that they can be seen to be making a contribution rather than simply interpreted as a threat to the peace of the Community!