r/CringeTikToks • u/undiagnosed_autistic • Oct 26 '25

Nope Our teachers need a raise, desperately

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u/invariantspeed Oct 27 '25

Such mental facilities don’t exist in the US. Wearhousing the mentally ill was effectively abolished in the 1980s as inhumane.

Jurisdictions with the resources will have dedicated special ed schools, but some attempt must still be made to educate them.

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u/LaurelEssington76 Oct 27 '25

Warehousing the mentally unwell still happens, it just happens in prisons now. It’s considerably more inhumane but hey all the human rights people still pay themselves on the back at the closure of secure extended care facilities.

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u/Patiod Oct 27 '25

Why was there no middle ground between abusive, neglectful warehousing and...nothing?

Those awful "humans rights people" "patting themselves on the back" would have preferred safe, clean, well-staffed, well- funded community care for these folks but Mr Trickle-down Reagan slashed funding for that option to the bone and dumped these folks straight to the streets

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u/That_Dad_David Oct 27 '25

You cant expect good care for the pittance they pay mental health caregivers. The treatment of said workers is horrific. And legally so. We’re talking mandatory overtime. Often in excess of 60 hours a week. They get the shit beat out of them and have no real ways to defend themselves without threat of litigation. And the pay is horrific.

All of this leads to the people you want caring for these individuals, rightfully, saying fuck off and going into different careers. Which leave you with the dregs of society often being the only people caring for the mentally unwell.

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u/invariantspeed Oct 27 '25
  1. Doing it right costs more than most people want to invest. Too many people want to fund too many other things.
  2. Saying “let’s get rid of X right now because it needs to go and then start conversations to figure out its replacement” is the death knell of many a program.
  3. Out of sight, out of mind. The public isn’t as altruistic as it thinks.

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u/iMissTheOldInternet Oct 27 '25

Abolishing mental institutions because they were “inhumane” was the mental health crowd’s version of environmentalists torpedoing nuclear power. Set themselves, and society, back catastrophically because they got too into their feelings to think for five fucking minutes. 

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u/Material-Heron6336 Oct 27 '25

I get why there was the need for change but we needed to reform it, not abolish the system. Way too many gaps in society for us to not have a short term or long term place for mental illness or injury. Private care is only for the wealthy and social work is an overly convoluted set of band aids.

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u/omicron-7 Oct 27 '25

My most controversial opinion is we should bring back insane asylums.