The other way psychiatry fails in many jurisdictions is because of overpopulation and understaffing. In patient psychiatry tends to scare people away. It doesn't provide people a safe place to go. And if they do go they are often just baby sat and offered no real alternatives to the drugs. No yoga. No art therapy. No teaching people how to journal. The only thing that the VA had going for it was good church service, but even that got canceled do to covid.
I stayed out of the hospital this last month after being deeply triggered in part because the hospital was not a safe place to go.
That put myself and everyone else around me at insane risk. Last month could have ended really poorly under slightly different circumstances.
Thems are the facts.
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