Rather Mental Options

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I take a great interest in mental illnesses.
We're learning some about it in English and how most mental illness stories reflect how society is..etc.

had some questions :)
First, in todays world, do you have to be diagnosed with a mental illness to be hospitalized? or can you check yourself in? just coz?

Second, do people still preform labotemies? (idk how to spell it). They used to do it a lot in the 1960s..and went in thru the eye sockets. If they still do it today, why?

Third, do you feel like society today is "neglecting" mentally ill people? do you feel that this is why almost 1/3 or more of homeless people have a mental illness? Society has falsely promised help for these people, homes and hospitals are full and they have no where to go? Or is it just an excuse to be where they're at in life?

Fourth, do you recommend any good books are movies about this stuff? i have read and watched Girl, Interrupted and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Fifth, do you feel that the routines some hospitals put on patients decrease their chances of being able to re-enter society? or do you feel that it helps them remain stable?

...err, i had more questions, but i have forgotten them.

[iRapediCarly]

First, in todays world, do you have to be diagnosed with a mental illness to be hospitalized? or can you check yourself in? just coz?

diagnosed

Second, do people still preform labotemies? (idk how to spell it). They used to do it a lot in the 1960s..and went in thru the eye sockets. If they still do it today, why?

don't think so, its proven that not only does it temper with motor functions but personality as well

Third, do you feel like society today is "neglecting" mentally ill people? do you feel that this is why almost 1/3 or more of homeless people have a mental illness? Society has falsely promised help for these people, homes and hospitals are full and they have no where to go? Or is it just an excuse to be where they're at in life?

no, take responsibility and stop expecting others to help you

Fourth, do you recommend any good books are movies about this stuff? i have read and watched Girl, Interrupted and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

fight club, a beautiful mind, but fight club is more fictional story rather than the explanation of it

Fifth, do you feel that the routines some hospitals put on patients decrease their chances of being able to re-enter society? or do you feel that it helps them remain stable?

if you are f*cked up, theres no way you are considered normal, but then again, what the f*ck is normal anyway

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fight club, a beautiful mind, but fight club is more fictional story rather than the explanation of it

the way your answers sound, it is all too familiar to me, i dont like it


...i've seen them both thanks.
fight club happens to be one of my fav movies.

[Teesa]

you could just look up your questions and find a lot more information from professionals.

i recommend watching copycat, as good as it gets, memento, rain man, sybil, psycho...there are a lot.

with books, i definitely recommend i never promised you a rose garden by joanne greenberg