Bad Mental Health

It is my belief that in fifty some odd years of existence, agencies, like Southwestern Washington State's Behavioral Health Resources, have begun to show signs of their demise. Agencies, like BHR, have become glutted self-serving bureaucracies whose sole aim is to cater to the whims of supragovernmental entities such as DSHS, SSI, NAMI, NIMH, and countless others, not to mention becoming puppets for the international drug companies pumping their dangerous and often fatal products and wares.

Some may argue that BHR has done a lot of good in helping people find homes and to receive treatments, but at what cost? Good people have become subject to systematic removal from the societies in which they formerly led productive and meaningful lives free of drugs and outdated methods of psychological coersion. Behavioralism is dead. Long live behavioralism! This has become the defacto hidden credo of such agencies and they know it.

It's time to fight fire with fire. It is time for a changing of the guard. I propose that intensive case management and adult services be restructured in such a way that these otherwise honest workpeople can better serve their clientele, who have been alienatied by businesses, such as BHR over their 50 years of hard work and good services that have been growing ever the more stagnant by changing times.

People should be empowered, not sequestered. People should be taught to maximize their full potential and realize their gifts and to not be labelled. People should have a direct say in the preceeding agencies that mediate their lives as consumers and patients of the therapeutic processes that govern their well being.

Either BHR and other agencies should restructure or something better will come along to redeem the power of the individual, striking down the former ways of dealing with low-income people of need, rendering BHR obsolete. I have plenty of ideas on how this can be accomplished and am not afraid to share them with anyone. If anyone wishes to hear what I have to say, as a concerned consumer, I would be more than happy to oblige. I believe mental health services can do better to serve the community and its case management team.

krathnami wrote:It is my belief that in fifty some odd years of existence, agencies, like Southwestern Washington State's Behavioral Health Resources, have begun to show signs of their demise. Agencies, like BHR, have become glutted self-serving bureaucracies whose sole aim is to cater to the whims of supragovernmental entities such as DSHS, SSI, NAMI, NIMH, and countless others, not to mention becoming puppets for the international drug companies pumping their dangerous and often fatal products and wares.

Some may argue that BHR has done a lot of good in helping people find homes and to receive treatments, but at what cost? Good people have become subject to systematic removal from the societies in which they formerly led productive and meaningful lives free of drugs and outdated methods of psychological coersion. Behavioralism is dead. Long live behavioralism! This has become the defacto hidden credo of such agencies and they know it.

It's time to fight fire with fire. It is time for a changing of the guard. I propose that intensive case management and adult services be restructured in such a way that these otherwise honest workpeople can better serve their clientele, who have been alienatied by businesses, such as BHR over their 50 years of hard work and good services that have been growing ever the more stagnant by changing times.

People should be empowered, not sequestered. People should be taught to maximize their full potential and realize their gifts and to not be labelled. People should have a direct say in the preceeding agencies that mediate their lives as consumers and patients of the therapeutic processes that govern their well being.

Either BHR and other agencies should restructure or something better will come along to redeem the power of the individual, striking down the former ways of dealing with low-income people of need, rendering BHR obsolete. I have plenty of ideas on how this can be accomplished and am not afraid to share them with anyone. If anyone wishes to hear what I have to say, as a concerned consumer, I would be more than happy to oblige. I believe mental health services can do better to serve the community and its case management team.

Agreed.