Nungali Posted Tuesday at 10:44 PM I spent the day with his Mom .... she is holding up rather well considering - so far . She is still staying with one of her daughters and two women friends - thats probably for the best - one is being her 'secretary ' ( navigating communications with lawyers, mental health etc . the other is emotional support , cooking etc ) so she seems in good hands . I got a call from a younger guy I know that needed to talk as he said 'to someone not in the middle of it' . That means , that although I know the perpetrator's family and friend circle , I dont know the victim's . Thats not the case in the area ; many of the younger people know both and are all interconnected eg ; the victim's remaining two sisters are friends of the perpetrator's two sisters . So there is a lot of 'social shock ' going on out there . However , as it usually pans out IF I am 'emergency needed ' I am called upon and do my best to deliver , after that I am totally ignored and on my own . Thats okay I am used to it and prefer it , so now I am back in hermitage and relatively isolated 'out here ' , suits me fine at the moment - even the local store has a huge cloud of freaked out around it ( those two guys and one of their girl friends had been camped at the local camp ground next door to the shop for a couple of weeks before they moved further out into the wilderness , where 'it' happened . - so they were all well known there ) . 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted yesterday at 02:15 AM (edited) @Nungali That's awful. I wonder if things are as bad in Australia with mental health "handling" by the system as here. Probably not... Here they "do something" pretty much only after the mentally ill person kills someone, otherwise -- even if they keep committing crimes -- they are just let loose, no help for them and no safety for their potential victims. There used to be 550,000 mental institutions in the US in the 1950s -- then they just shut down the whole thing, only about 600 remain today. One would think the need just disappeared overnight... and that's so very the other way around. Edited 22 hours ago by Taomeow Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted 16 hours ago 19 hours ago, Taomeow said: @Nungali That's awful. I wonder if things are as bad in Australia with mental health "handling" by the system as here. Probably not... Here they "do something" pretty much only after the mentally ill person kills someone, otherwise -- even if they keep committing crimes -- they are just let loose, no help for them and no safety for their potential victims. There used to be 550,000 mental institutions in the US in the 1950s -- then they just shut down the whole thing, only about 600 remain today. One would think the need just disappeared overnight... and that's so very the other way around. Of course, that was the case here , with the one concerned . A while back a woman I know left her kid at a friends house and went off to 'kill herself' ... as she told her little daughter .... who then told her minders , who then told authorities . They found her locked in her car , she went to psyche ward , they shot her up full of drugs and released her ... to continue 'caring' for her daughter . 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve Posted 14 hours ago (edited) 21 hours ago, Taomeow said: no help for them and no safety for their potential victims. For all the lip service about our addiction problems, Fentanyl, the need to kidnap foreign leaders and such… addiction treatment programs are completely inaccessible for most who need them in the US Quote There used to be 550,000 mental institutions in the US in the 1950s -- then they just shut down the whole thing, only about 600 remain today. One would think the need just disappeared overnight... And those folks for the most part comprise our homeless population. I was working in hospitals in a major city when some of the largest inpatient facilities closed. Our homeless population exploded overnight, overwhelming ERs and outpatient clinics. Many of them ended up in prison or dead of hypothermia. Edited 14 hours ago by steve 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
old3bob Posted 5 hours ago (edited) Many of the "powers that be" and various people in various government's could care less about human suffering along with the vast harm being done to all forms of life on Earth... it is mostly or often in vain to point out or harp about the lack of ethics, morals, and conscience to those that have willfully destroyed the same within themselves for a buck and or dark power. Also with those taken in by cults of false promises (lies) of glory that really bring destruction, including their own when the piper comes to collect; although some can finally turn away from destructive cults after painfully seeing the wool that has been pulled over their eyes! Edited 5 hours ago by old3bob Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
