(May 8, 2017 at 8:21 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(May 8, 2017 at 5:50 am)chimp3 Wrote: There are still Psychiatric hospitals. It is the long term institutionalization of patients that is shunned. ECT is still performed and is considered an effective treatment for depression that does not respond to medication.
That part, I admit I'm aware of. The point is, several factors converged to ensure we don't have as many long term facilities to take care of the more extreme cases of mental illness. And while we technically know better, society's response to mental illness hasn't really changed that much.
Our State Hospital had to open it's own long term care facility to care for those cases. I work in long term care and we do have some residents with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc. They are stable but at times they do have to go to inpatient psychiatric settings. Usually a privately owned institution. The state hospital tends to be for those at severe risk.
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