The Mentally Ill

The talk-show host this morning had a father on with a very sick daughter requiring long-term institutionalization to get better, but the mainstreaming of the mentally ill forestalls such help being available. As a deinstitutionalizing anarchist, I am for mainstreaming, but one size does not fit all, and some may require institutionalization. Were the mentally ill carefully, systemically mentored in the he skills of self-realization, with good medication and outsourced therapy ongoing, their rate of mainstream and independently living being a successful and enjoyable experience for them would go up greatly.