Housing and the ‘Right to Fail’ For People With Severe Mental Illness (Full Documentary) | FRONTLINE
Following the lives of former group home residents who are now on their own, FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate New York’s effort to let people with mental illnesses live independently.
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Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what’s happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences.
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Notice that the guy who's family insisted he must be medicated is dead.
It's a hard lesson, but the drugs are a fix all.
Home care outside cities for these mentally ill persons with 24/7 psychiatrists and social workers and provided with full medical care , first and foremost. Mentally ill should be assessed first if they can live "independently" or have relatives who may possibly take them. But sadly, 99% probability that no relatives will take them with this kind of culture and governmental set ups. Lost of true care for these people is what I see in this documentary. Close to being 'heartless' from people of the government.
I had a schizophrenic living next door to me i worked 3 to 11 when i got home hed be waiting in the hallway screaming at me claiming i was banging my door all night when i wasnt even home i was at work. He tried to get into my apartment turning the knob. Thank god it was locked . When he finally moved out he put a note on my door thanking me for giving him food which i never did lol.
Leave them in the institution and do a better job providing a good life for them. To turn most of these people out on the street is utterly cruel.
As someone with bipolar NOS I relate to Nester when his mom died. When my mom died I lost it for 3 months. Literally! I am not a drinker and I drank for a week straight. I couldn't get out of bed. I couldn't do anything. Finally I slowly regained my life.
It’s scary when you realize Nestor is an example of what a high-functioning schizophrenic looks like, as he is obviously intelligent and has some degree of insight into his condition.
I feel bad for Nestor. I knew a guy like him.
What I don't get is if someone had a broken hip, you'd never think to tell them they have to walk 2 miles to the hospital to get help because clearly, the structures for walking can't work at that point. Mental illness is caused by the structure for making decisions being damaged/not working, yet we expect someone in that condition to make mindful decisions on their care.
I live in Eugene Oregon and I’m 46 and I can’t get the support program that I’m in because I’m not visaculy disabled only metal disabled I can’t get a jobs or the ability to get a provider and no fireands my ex family gave up on me im truly alone in my lony life I have no more options 🤯😭🤬
Why his brother didn't help now that he dead he all in
1:52 😮 2:07
Hey Clifford 3:38
Thank you lady for building a lane for me. 7:13
I can identify when I hear Voices or I am being delusional 12:39
My beautiful mother did the same thing for me and my supportive housing however unlike nestor I am severely successful and I am thriving with my budget my state of New York gave me for housing 20:41
Everybody would struggle if forced pumped with chemicals and have their brain burned
into beef jerky with electricity ECT forced treatment on people who do not want it.
Even navy seals could not remember few objects that were placed in front of them on a table when in high intensity
training. What these people are put through is so much more than a navy seal training.
ECT forced treatments erase memory. Do not do it in the first place then there will not be the problem of these people
be not able to remember.
I have bipolar disorder that hit me in my late 20s, been rejected from social security my whole life even though i paid into it. I barely function these days and take meds. No addiction issues. Its the sick society not the people.
S:US is apart of the Right to fail law for the severely mentally ill with it's employees have no hospital credentials.
I only talk to myself because i cant say that stuff i say to myself to a doctor 19:01
Department of health (Doctors and nurses) office of mental health (medication) and clinical team will decide of i am housed in permanent housing. 42:00
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I think that some people just can’t live on their own. They just have to be in a mental institution. But I think that the institution that they put them in, should take care of them
This is ridiculous, you do not give people who are impaired the right to make their own decisions/live their own lives. These people are vulnerable by nature and do not have the capacity to deal with life alone or decide what level of care they will or won't accept. The Mental Health/Govt/Social Services have massively failed on this.
This is freaking abuse and sooo sad 😢
You people are insane also 😡
😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
This is a problem for medical sciences, not politics. I believe there are potential cures for schizophrenia bipolar and so just waiting to be discovered. The first one discovered was for anti nmda Receptor encephalitis. Many more will follow in the following century.
Send a couple of them to live with PBS reporters.
SO QUICK to lecture the common man, but so slow to lift a finger to do something about it.
9762 1210$ 😡 MONTHLY THE CAPITALISTIC SWINE DID THIS TO US THE WORLD NEEDS SOCIALISM THE CAPITALISTS ARE CRUEL
I😃JUST FOLLOW BIG BERNIE SANDER MY SHRINK IS A HINDU MY ONLY OTHER CONTACT TRUMP PERSON COUSIN I JUST LEAVE VOICEMAILS THEY ARE LAWSUIT RICH
HIS MOTHER SUED A STUDENT DENTIST THEY GOT RICH SHE GOT ALIMONEY FROM A LABORER THEN FOUND A SUGAR DADDY THATS CAPITOLISTIC MONEY DONT VOTE FOR TRUMP OR THE REPUBLICANS I WONT
MY PYSICAL DOCTOR FROM IRAQ I DONT THINK HE CARES I RARELY SEE HIM THE SHRINK HINDU IS THE SAME WAY A FEW PILLS AND THEY GET ALL THE MONEY IVE KNOWN THIS SINCE HIGH SCHOOL HINDUS AND ARABS MONEY ALL THEY CARE ABOUT ME US ARMY JOURNALIST RECRUIT MY FAMILY CAME HERE ON BOATS THEM IN0JETS
FREEDOMS MINE LIL BEER TOBACCO INSTANT COFFEE TEA THEY JUST TOOK AWAY MY COFFEE GROUNDS
I always like these kinds of programs. Things will be much better for all of us regardless of the situation, if only we have kind, caring friends and family. Simple as that. Thanks. ❤