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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in the area and were told the suspect has tin foil covering his windows. Apparently the house was up for sale a few years ago but he also chased off potential buyers with a knife. [/quote]

How the heck can someone’s mental health issues/danger to society be so obvious and yet we do nothing? Honestly this incident was a failure to this man as much as the surrounding neighbors. He clearly had paranoid delusions and was likely psychotic. Would have been better to stabilize him with medical treatment than deal with this fallout.[/quote]

Yes, this is the current state of affairs with mental health, but it's been going on for decades, slowly getting worse.  But while every person and every politician in the nation is lamenting the lack of access to mental health and lack of interventions, our lawmakers have been doing absolutely *nothing* about it, and meanwhile we sell everyone more and more weapons, because - it's not the guns!

Mental health access, and what can be done in accordance with the law as far as interventions go, is greatly diminished, while our nation has had an exponential increase in weapon ownership since the 2000s.

And yes, those were gun shots before the explosion.    Kudos to our police and fire departments.[/quote]

It's not just availability of beds.  There is a nonprofit waiting to sue any locality that would make involuntary commitment easier.[/quote]

Mental health access is a joke and just lips moving with no real substance to back it up - it's unaffordable for most people. Mental illness is still a stigma (look at some of the comments on this thread) and people who need help have to first recognize that they [i]even[/i] need help. Plain and simple - you have to be an immediate threat to yourself or others before they will involuntarily treat you. And even that is temporary.

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How often have we been told housing first, so that the individual can work on their issues without fear of being homeless. That worked here, right? He sought treatment for his delusions? [/quote]

Having a home is not enough to help. Also, we have no proof he sought treatment. If he was schizophrenic, he likely did not recognize the need for help. Even if he did, compliance with taking the meds, going to therapy is low. [/quote]

Housing First doesn't require you to receive treatment. You just tell the case worker no thanks, once a month. Assuming they don't chase you off with a knife, I guess.[/quote]

That’s the wrong approach.[/quote]

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