The high price of criminalizing mental illness | Wendy Lindley

The high price of criminalizing mental illness | Wendy Lindley | TEDxOrangeCoast

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@bethn6620 4 жыл бұрын

Loved watching this. Was made a few years ago but still holds true. I have worked in several areas where I have worked with the incarcerated and mentally ill. Jails and prisons are not the answer. I applaud you for furthering your career to help people.

@MikeVeny 4 жыл бұрын

The prisons in America are the biggest mental hospitals in the country. It's really important that we continue to everyone struggling the help that they need.

@sajjadtariq5689 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Judge - Great spirit. This is how it should be not prison lobbies to house people.

@healing3733 2 жыл бұрын

Severe mental illnesses can lead to crime, so treating the mental illness would reduce crime.

@ThePatrick1reed 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, you helped voice my concern. Please stay safe in California.

@Neontrifle 5 жыл бұрын

In the UK I have been put in a jail cell three times when manic for a public order offence when I had commited no crime.......they must have known I was ill because I had to see the mental health crisis team in the morning before I could leave. It was terrifying.....I wasn't charged with anything....well done police and the mental health system..not.

@rwheels6471 4 жыл бұрын

If anyone reads this, AND wants to help people in the system for mental health issues, educate about cognitive dissonance and how to use dialectical thinking to combat it.

@rwheels6471 4 жыл бұрын

And that she is clearly cognativly dissonant. She says mental health being criminalized is a problem. Then she states the solution is to establish more outlets to expose mental health patients to the criminal "justice" system. That is cognitive dissonance ... 1+2=4. Read hegel . I see that math problem and know it's wrong. But if I was never taught addition, I'd have no way of proving it wrong. how do I do so? Dialectical thinking : thesis- antithesis= synthesis. Thesis : mental health is not a crime. Antithesis: solve it by adding another part of the criminal justice system to deal with mental health issues. $ynthe$i$: she is cognativly dissonant. _(unfortunatly prob'ly just a liar though)

@topgurl9313 4 жыл бұрын

You're right, they should be all over evidence-based practice. But unfortunately, the people in power do not want former prisoners to go on and succeed. They want them to keep failing until death. We could be gaining people, as reformed, better citizens, rather than losing people. But they don't care about all that.

@pureenergy4578 2 жыл бұрын

Princess I totally agree and more. People in power are cruel psychopaths. They have put those people in prisons on purpose to make money from them. Prisons are ponzi schemes just like the federal reserve cartel. It is communism you are writing about. It is taking us over.

@moe808 10 жыл бұрын

too bad this does not get one million likes and shares

@charlesgoodwin4361 5 жыл бұрын

👍 YUP yet another symptom of the disease that has PRETTY much always plauged the system and continues too do so in spit and despit the OVERWHELMING evidence against said aproch

@jdanielzuk 5 жыл бұрын

I know! So few here.

@shawnellemartineaux6212 3 жыл бұрын

This really inspired me. I think I’ll do one of my masters theses on this sort of topic for my country.

@voltairepabustan 3 жыл бұрын

Great content!

@ThompsonBMXbikes 7 жыл бұрын

This is the first step to ending mass incarceration in America. We must speak up to Judges and Police Chiefs, Mayor's, City Council, County Commissioners, Congressional Representatives and Senators. This is a solid solution, we can do it starting at the local level.

@Sumtingwongbruh123 5 жыл бұрын

Moral corruptions.... Sighs

@zachariahbraydon79 3 жыл бұрын

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@carlossousa2831 11 жыл бұрын

Wise words !!

@angelabrinkerhoff777 2 жыл бұрын

Yes… failed. Texas throws them in prison. They come out worse. The numbers of re offense speak for themselves. My son lives with schizophrenia. He hurt someone during a psychotic episode and has been held in isolation for over 5 months in the county jail. His condition has not improved but deteriorated. He refuses medication, refuses to see me. He is not mentally able to advocate for himself and was unable to be tested for competency. He is waiting for inpatient treatment?? No one has said how long this could take. When the psychotic episode started crisis lines were called, police were called, charges were even pressed and the DA dropped them. Four days before the incident my ex-husband begged a judge to help before something happened. He had become violent. No one would help.

@laurieberry4814 4 жыл бұрын

Is it against the law to be a psychopath? I have a diagnosis. It’s not a psychopath. I feel that having a mental illness is dealing with arrogant people who have gone to private schools up to tenth grade and have graduated from a public high school. Then their parents pay for their college and give them cars. I’m the opposite of a spoiled brat. I worked for thirty years. A woman did defamation of my reputation. She exaggerated about me. She wrote down that she takes a threat seriously. She knows that I am mentally ill because she mentioned mental illness in her writing. She’s a liar. I guess that she felt that she can get away with this. She also made an invalid opinion about me being agitated. My Mom told me that she’s worried that I will end up in jail. My sister texted me that a restraining order and a history of mental illness doesn’t look good. I blocked her. I haven’t talked in n my phone to her for several months. I feel like I’m getting control of my life. I’ve been losing sleep, but I have been doing well at work. I guess that she thinks that I am a psychopath. I guess that she learned about mental health is fear

@juddy219 11 жыл бұрын

this is awesome!!!

@zeroknight8099 3 жыл бұрын

Schizophrenia is not a crime 😎

@Funandconsciousness 11 жыл бұрын

I agree in principle with her premise, and I applaud her story. However, mental illness is NOT - I repeat NOT - to be treated with drugs. Drugs are just as bad as incarceration. She is on the right track when she comes from a place of respect, and help. These unfortunate human beings need to be respected, listened to, and allowed to experience recalling their past incidents of pain and unconsciousness which have been unduly influencing their lives. That is all that is needed.

@XxfishpastexX 6 жыл бұрын

the thing about treatment is that your psychiatrist works for you. If it's not working, ask for different treatment or a different psychiatrist. I'm sorry to hear about your stories and hope you're better now.

@Slarti 5 жыл бұрын

Not everyone who has experienced a traumatic event wants to revisit it, for many people drugs are in the short term the simplest choice.

@Jo-lp1px 5 жыл бұрын

I understand if you took medication and it was a horrible experience. In my case my main side effect is constant fatigue which is manageable, and my medication stopped my extremely desteuctive mental disorder.