01-23-2005, 02:04 PM
Are there ever any empty beds in NHS mental hospitals?
Wasn't the political fiction called "care in the community" devised precisely to reduce mental health in-patient facilities to the barest minimum needed to meet demand for those "sectioned" under the mental health acts, with a bit of slack left over for "acute" cases.
And of course people with ASDs would come under the general umbrella of mental health legislation in the UK.
The Blair regime has always been keen to push mental health enforcement and we shouldn't forget their serious but failed attempt to pass legislation allowing them to lock up persons deemed to have dangerous personality disorders without any crime ever having been committed.
The term "psychopath" is still used generally to imply "sociopath" - and we, of course, are psychopaths, though the term "autistic psychopathy" is seldom heard nowadays.
:roll:
What is likely to happen? What can we expect?
Whatever accountants decide is the most "cost effective" way of dealing with us that can be made to look respectable. No matter what politicians and legislators may say and do in public, whatever looks to be the least controversial of the cheapest proposals for dealing with difficult and troublesome persons will prevail.
As a sophisticated and highly cost-effective electronic "tagging" system has already been set up to service the criminal justice industry, it can only be a matter of time before its use is extended to other potential "client groups" - like you and me...
Stella Maru
Wasn't the political fiction called "care in the community" devised precisely to reduce mental health in-patient facilities to the barest minimum needed to meet demand for those "sectioned" under the mental health acts, with a bit of slack left over for "acute" cases.
And of course people with ASDs would come under the general umbrella of mental health legislation in the UK.
The Blair regime has always been keen to push mental health enforcement and we shouldn't forget their serious but failed attempt to pass legislation allowing them to lock up persons deemed to have dangerous personality disorders without any crime ever having been committed.
The term "psychopath" is still used generally to imply "sociopath" - and we, of course, are psychopaths, though the term "autistic psychopathy" is seldom heard nowadays.
:roll:
What is likely to happen? What can we expect?
Whatever accountants decide is the most "cost effective" way of dealing with us that can be made to look respectable. No matter what politicians and legislators may say and do in public, whatever looks to be the least controversial of the cheapest proposals for dealing with difficult and troublesome persons will prevail.
As a sophisticated and highly cost-effective electronic "tagging" system has already been set up to service the criminal justice industry, it can only be a matter of time before its use is extended to other potential "client groups" - like you and me...
Stella Maru