CATW PRACTICE 2

                 To die in the waiting room of a hospital is bad. To die in the waiting room of an hospital while staff and security walk right pass you for over a hour while your dieing has to be worst. From the article "The woman who died in the waiting room" by Jeneen Interlandi it shows you how public hospitals across the country have struggled to provide acute psychiatric care to the poor and uninsured since the early 1960s. Knowing whats in this article is painful. This is why i strongly agree with a point that was made in this passage " the mentally ill should be offered a place in society".
                My grandmother just turned 83 and has been living in different nursing home for the past year and a half now. My grandmother has numerous amount of problems with her that range from blood clots in her legs to having Alzheimer's and not every hospital or nursing home can provide the care that she needs. Alot of nursing homes do not take her type of insurance or if they did they no longer do and had to change nursing homes.  This was a big issue for my family and i because she had no place to go besides with her family (which was not properly trained to deal with her situation). This made things much more difficult for my family.
         I seen many videos over the Internet or even in school where psychiatric patients are being abused, mistreated , or not being attended to. My senior year in high school my history class was shown a video where the mentally ill was being mistreated and abused. This video took place in a hospital for the mentally ill on Staten island where a camera crew snuck their way into the hospital where they recorded the staff pushing the patients on the floor and beating them. Even in one scene they shower the staff stacking the mentally ill patients on top of one another. This hospital was soon shut down once the video aired on TV.
                 Ti is absurd to believe that there is no place for the mentally ill to go. What the problem might be is the lack of phychiatric care. Many patients suffer from chronic conditions and are neglected from the day to day counseling or medication they need. Furthermore until someone puts a stop to not providing the proper attention that these people need the abuse and neglected will continue on and be over looked