Thank you Michelle Durand for reporting the "self-centered, completely devoid of compassion or just all around dense" comments made by Barbara Bush concerning victims of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe; "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this is working very well for them," "Slapping some sense into those who need it," Sept. 8. These words by the insulated, over-priviledged, mother of a U.S. president, responding to persons in dire circumstances, are a national disgrace.
It will be a sad day if we ever throw up our hands in frustration over egregious lapses in compassion both nationally or at the local level. In San Mateo County parent's have been subjected to comments made by those within the system we call "mental health" concerning their adult children with serious mental illness.
He does very well in jail.
They (homeless persons with untreated mental illness) do very well on the streets. People are good to them. They are skilled at finding resources.
If your son had died when he was 10 years old, you could have gotten on with your life.
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We don't have to talk to you, we don't have to tell you if he dies.
Just because the state investigators have come in, it doesn't necessarily mean the violations are true. This is in reference to patients placed by the county in a rehabilitation center out of the area that has been cited for several violations of patient safety requirements. These include several patients being sent to a hospital for swallowing broken glass, batteries, a crochet hook, not having a disaster plan etc.
The Board of Supervisors has been informed. Will they continue to establish forums to ASK WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS, pay for studies and hold summits in lieu of acting on what they have already been told? Parents of persons with mental illness want effective therapy for their loved ones, safe housing, and freedom from abuse and neglect.
In June two supervisors will come up for reelection. We will want to know about their progress in establishing a mental health court to process seriously mentally ill persons out of the criminal system into a therapeutic environment and progress in ending the arrest and jailing of unruly patients in the psych unit at San Mateo Medical Facility.
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