Came off the gold standard in the early 70’s and look who’s running the asylum

Looks like mental institutions got defunded well before prisons took off.

You could also add homeless on this chart as many people from mental hospitals ended up on the streets when the institutions closed.

I wonder what life was like in the 8 year trough

Not sure what to make of it, but in the mid 70s it seems the sum of both was just half the number before and after (~300 vs. ~600)

WTF happened in 1971? 🤔

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

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I know most of whom I consider real Bitcoiners are right leaning or libertarian (extend scope of these as you like) and as such I’d assume they tend to prefer prisons over mental hospitals…

However on this one they’d be wrong. It matters how a society treats their weakest. If you truly can’t control your behaviour and emotions you deserve help.

This is not and should not be a „human right“ granted by governments enabled through force. Instead it should be a gift we grant ourselves as societies. The gift of dignity and a way out of dark places for everyone because we’re human.

Why looking this chart my thoughts is "WTF happen in 1971"... Doesn't make sense, but still.

The prison thing is fucked up.

But tbf many mental hospitals were shut down for grave mistreatment, so called “state homes” particularly for folks with severe disabilities

My first nonprofit gig was working with folks affected by these state homes. Horrific

Please plot a 3rd graph with total gov employment, which goes straight up as well 😅

Prisons probably make more money than mental hospitals.

In the 70s in Italy a psychiatrist held a popular campaign to close all mental hospitals and help people with mental illness in their “return” - reinserimento - into society.

Catholics and communists were both happy to sign a law closing mental institutions. A law of civilization, they were saying.

I'll never forget my grandmother and my mother in the living room watching Ronald Regan.

"They're defunding the mental institutions..."

"Yep. It won't be right away, but in about 30 years, you're gonna see crazy people roaming the streets in droves. It won't be safe to go out any more."

I had no real idea what they were talking about, but I remember it was a big deal, and now here we are, seeing the impacts of that.

Well when you privatize prisons and they have a corporate bottom line you’ll need customers to keep the shareholders happy.

There’s more money to be made in the private prison industry. It’s very simple.

No wonder the 70's were wild

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reminds me of the graphs for covid and flu... or long covid and chronic fatigue syndrome

But don't worry we're free here....

😂

I’m not surprised.

I never understood prison as a deterrent. As a place to put dangerous people, sure... but free room and board in exchange for limited freedom? At some point the economic reality is it makes sense to cause some trouble just to get fed and out of the cold.

I realize the thread is about mental health. The problem with mental hospitals is they were abused. Husbands would commit their wives as being "histerical" and put them on lithium or other psychoactive drugs. Getting rid of them completely was an obvious mistake. There are many unstable and untreated people with no where to go so they just "mill about" in urban areas, often shouting nonsense and acting paranoid. It is quite unsettling. Especially if you have children that don't understand what's happening. Once beautiful and safe cities are overrun with the drug addicted or insane.

Reminds me the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Back then, mental hospitals were actually prisons, too.

I think the data from the last decade says different. The Incarceration rate had fallen dramatically during the last decade while the number of people held in mental institutions hasn't gone up. And the violent crimes had fallen also.

Wow… tell a tale of twisted intent

If I od’d as an adult, and not a minor, I would’ve been sent to prison for possessing controlled substance instead of being sent to inpatient & rehab. I think about it all the time, no way I would’ve gotten clean.

Yes. But.

The chart doesn’t really capture the complexity of the overall problem - there's a lot of mental illness that's not hospitalized. In reality, many (or most) of us will experience cognitive decline if we are fortunate enough to live long lives. Toward the end, serious mental decline - often lasting 1-6 months, is more than common, but it isn’t factored into this chart or treated in the same way, as it is categorically differentiated from 'mental illness'. But it is. And it's hospitalized, but not 'categorized' as such.

The brain is annoyingly just another organ (with 'magic properties', yes, but is still limited to our physics), just like the heart or liver, subject to disease, inflammation, and aging. Yet we often overlook this because our subjective experience of reality feels so distinct. But time is the most finite resource any of us has. Subjectively speaking (subjective to our lifespan) it's even more finite than Bitcoin. So the only thing more 'hard' than hard money is hard time. See what I did there - circled back to the chart. :]

and/or, not and -

I'm a problem for others because others are a problem for me

I'd never be locked up for being a problem for myself, except when suicidal - it's a war between me and everyone else, they don't care to protect me from myself unless I threaten to make them grieve a death

No shock here as I’ve been working lifelong to save humanity. Many others have as well.

I recall in the early 70s, the rise of psycho-active drugs like thorazine, enabled the hospitals to empty out the mentally ill. It was the beginning of widespread homelessness and crime as these folks weren’t really healthy. Sad. The thorazine took the edge off the more violent patients.

I could see this happening thirty years ago following government cuts in mental health institutions, closing down facilities, building more prisons

My father was a prison officer for thirty years but I didn’t follow his footsteps 😎 instead choosing adventure instead

Victim blaming.

That is such a sad graph, Lyn. Thinking of all the individuals, life circumstances, support workers and families that are attached to each one of those “numbers”.

Destruction of societal compassion in one graph.

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1955: The number of mentally ill patients in public psychiatric hospitals peaks at 560,000.

1962: The publication of Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” further critiques the institutionalized mental healthcare system.

1963: The Community Mental Health Act provides federal funding for community-based care and treatment facilities.

1965: Medicaid excludes coverage for people in “institutions for mental diseases,” incentivizing states to move patients out of state mental hospitals and into nursing homes and general hospitals.

1967: California passes the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, making involuntary hospitalization more difficult and contributing to the decline of institutionalized care.

https://mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/the-penrose-hypothesis/

coincides perfectly with fiat times. the two curves touch in early 70s which is where Dixon shock occurred

I don't think it says anything about either mental health or crime trends. It is simply a reflection of how much more profitable it has become to run a prison than a psychiatric hospital.

in the '80s the supreme Court said you can't hold people against their will unless they've committed a crime and crazy people had typically committed no crime

so they shut down the nut houses and let them all loose and now they live in the forests all through my beloved City of Austin Texas

the city greenbelts are full of needles and shopping carts

everybody blamed Ronald Reagan at the time but really it was the supreme Court and in fact it was a liberal Justice that was the swing vote on the supreme Court that caused this problem

the case that started the problem was that some man had put his wife and stepchildren in The nut House on trumped up evidence that they couldn't fight because they didn't seem credible after they'd been in the asylum for a while

apparently this was a common way to get rid of an annoying wife and her annoying kids

This chart also reflects the increase in number of laws the retards in DC and state capitals churn out every year

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Interesting chart.

WTF happened in 1971

damn

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Men who use women for sec should be in mental hospitals

We tend to only see the effect/symptom and never the cause which led to that.

Same thing with a lot of problems resulting from poverty.

The trend will be reversed under Bitcoin standards?

Men who use women for sex only should be here lol

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Aren't prisons more humane than mental hospitals ?