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David Oaks makes a very good point.  I am a provider of services as well as a survivor of treatment.  It is as if we are not even adequate to speak to issues that, upon close examination, have been articulated and spoken to in numerous research, educational, and most importantly experiential forums. This is fundamentally discriminatory as well as ignoring a valuable resource that has led the movement for recovery, improved interventions for trauma, and the improvement of health outcomes for peers [studies show that persons with mental health labels die much sooner than the "normal"  population].

See http://www.dsamh.utah.gov/docs/mortality-morbidity_nasmhpd.pdf

Mr. Roberts to many of us seems to be a progressive and inclusive leader, and has suggested the addition of peer workers on each of his ward teams [22] and on the larger department administrator's tribunal.  However, he faces the same professional barriers that have made the hospital an expensive and dangerous nightmare.

One of the aspects of this is the failure to look at those receiving the care as fully human and fully able to articulate their circumstances that could lead to their recovery and seeing them as relevant to their own lives and desires, which contrary to the practice [not the rhetoric] of the hospital, is possible.

Hopefully someone will change the outcomes along with the new facilities, though thus far, words have -not- resulted in action or the inclusion in the discussion of those that have the lived experience of the "mental health system." This usually means passing through the terrors of becoming part of the system and acquiring derogatory clinical labels that will stalk them for life, which of itself is enough to traumatize someone.

Drake Ewbank - Springfield OR

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Simply.  There is more than enough money.  The union is making it impossible to change abusive and unresponsive personnel and is absolutely culpable in a culture of inertia.

Public unions produce nothing except job security through political influence, there is no competition, there is no performance standard, they can do bad or negligent work and keep their job forever as long as they elect the Governor.

All these people should be ashamed, and nothing will change, just as no one who is critical or knows what is like was even included in this... of course because the public is mislead to believe this is help rather than a prison.

OPB should be ashamed of itself too, as they have asked those responsible to explain what happened and we are stupid enough as a society to believe them. NAMI is a joke... that is still trying to justify the abuse of their own kids by themselves - frustrated enough to live vicariously in the oppression and control that the system provides to their failed efforts at it.

ITS A PRISON.  And until the society has some real understanding of those that are incarcerated there, they will keep paying through the nose to have someone else sit on these people so that everyone can feel safe.

It is the most colossal waste of money in the State.  It is a disgrace that kills people and their souls.... often, and does it behind locked doors.  And even this tragedy will just get the same promises, the same firing of the wrong people, and NOTHING WILL CHANGE...  the lives of the people there are worthless even in sacrifice... people die all the time in the mental health system just from the drugs... and no one DOES ANYTHING!  And the doctors are around just to tell us that they must take them.

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