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Enforced Treatment vs. Prison for Acute Mental Patients May 05, 2008 9:55 PM

Who's child is this?  It is not often that the public gets to see the loss of control that mental patients sometimes suffer:

http://www.mediatak eout.com/ 23350/shocking_ video_disturbed_ girl_terrorizes_ elderly_woman_ on_an_atlanta_ train.html

The unfortunate girl in this video is obviously disturbed, just as the caption says.  People like this child illustrate the reason for my advocacy for the 1.25 million mentally disabled PRISONERS in America who should have better options for inpatient care, and mandates for continuous outpatient treatment upon release from hospitals.  Across America, mental hospitals are closing.  This child does not belong in jail, but that is probably where she is now or soon will be, because homelessness, jail, and death are this country's current answers to mental illness.

Most schizophrenic and many bi-polar persons, as well as people suffering post traumatic stress disorder and other mental dysfunctions, may experience intense psychotic episodes.  Sometimes, their psychosis results in self-inflicted injuries and suicides and murders of innocent people.  Most often, however, the mentally ill do not actually harm anyone, but imagine the trauma to these people -- the anguish they must feel. 

I am not a psychiatrist, nor am I trained in psychology.  However, I feel the child in this video suffers from extreme paranoia.  She feels threatened by a fellow passenger on the train, an elderly woman.  Later, the girl accused another passenger of being someone who raped her.  Perhaps the child really has been raped by someone in her past -- some people take advantage of the mentally ill, many of whom wander in our society vulnerable and unprotected.  See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

Why does America keep closing its mental institutions?  This trend has resulted in our current overcrowded prison conditions and put a tremendous and unnecessary burden on our criminal justice system.  Do you believe the child in this video needs rehabilitation, or treatment?  Do you believe that if someone asks her if she would like to accept mental health treatment that she would agree to same?  From years of visiting the mental asylum where my schizophrenic brother was, I can assure you of one fact:  Many, if not most, acutely mentally ill persons do not acknowledge, believe, or accept that they are sick, especially not during a psychotic episode. 

I believe it is UNFAIR to ask a person who is obviously delusional if she WANTS mental health services.  This decision should not be hers to make.  I believe it is unfair to punish a person in this mental state for anything she does wrong - she would obviously be not guilty for reason of insanity.  

Many law officers would like to get back to fighting crime and cease from being the nation's psychiatric caretakers.  Let us please join together to see that America offers better than homelessness, jail, and death to our mentally disable citizens 

SURVEY:  PRISONS OR HOSPITALS?


  Jail
http://www.surveymo nkey.com/ s.aspx?sm= eBWphMwXQnxAi6m_ 2bLKqUEw_ 3d_3d  

Who's child is depicted in the video?  She's all of ours.  Let us work together to help her and those like her get the treatment they need, not jail!  Not Tasered to death during an arrest attempt!  Not left in a cold prison cell, naked to prevent suicide.  Let us find a more sane, humane approach to acute mental illness.

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill 

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ANNOUNCEMENT May 07, 2008 10:40 PM

Dog Justice in three languages and Larry Neal's story are now featured on Adrienne Carey Hurley's blog.

See http://adriennecareyhurley.blogspot.com/2008/05/dog-justice.html

Adrienne Carey HurleyAssistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and CultureThe UI Youth Empowerment Academy
Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literature
The University of Iowa

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Look for more about our quest for justice for Larry Neal and work to help other acutely mentally ill persons get treatment rather than prison at these links:

Mary Neal's Care2 Sharebook

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/sharebook/513396753

 

Quest for Justice for America's Mentally Ill Prisoners

http://www.nowpublic.com/health/justice-quest-americas-mentally-ill-prisoners-mary-neal

 

Happy Heroes Day - April 4

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/happy-heroes-day-april-4-mary-neal

 

MY FLAG, MY COUNTRY! by Mary Neal

MY FLAG, MY COUNTRY! by Mary Neal | The News is
by duo. updated 5 wks ago | 228 views ... in USA, America, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, Culture, Election, Mary Neal ...NowPublic.com

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Disturbed Girl on Video Now Under Arrest - 5/13/08 May 13, 2008 6:09 PM

First, please note the video has been moved to You Tube and is no longer available at the address above in this post. 
See it here:
See YouTube video (Warning: Video contains profanity and racial slurs)
 
Secondly, the disturbed young lady is now in jail.  She has joined the other 1.25 million mentally ill people who are also imprisoned in America.
 
YouTube video leads to MARTA arrest
Young woman shown pitching a fit, threatening elderly woman on train

The Atlanta Journal-Constitutio n
Published on: 05/13/08
 
MARTA officials said they have arrested Nafiza Ziyad, 25, as the result of an online video in which a young woman appears to be threatening an elderly woman on a MARTA train.
The video, posted on YouTube two weeks ago, has drawn more than 7,000 comments on the site and been viewed 600,000 times.
See YouTube video (Warning: Video contains profanity and racial slurs


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Mother of Arrested Bi-polar Victim Gives TV Interview May 14, 2008 7:40 PM

The young lady's mother gave a television interview today (5/14/08) about her daughter, who is now in jail for mental illnes.  See it at the link below.

Enforced Treatment vs. Prison for Acute Mental Patients
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/enforced-treatment-vs-prison-acute-mental-patients-mary-neal 

Also visit my website to read about my brother who struggled with mental illness at: 
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com.  Mine is the only family in the United States to have a family member secretly arrested in the 21st Century and returned to his family a corpse without any excuse, explanation, apology, arrest records, inquest, and denied any investigation.

Please pass this on to others who need to see what happens in the real world to acutely mentally ill people in America.  Good samaritans protest against hospitalization for acute mental patients, and they also protest against enforced treatment.  But these are not the people who will be called upon to identify the dead bodies of their loved ones or visit them in prison.  The patients' families have these duties, and unfortunately, families presently have little say in how their mentally ill members are treated for their conditions.  Your friends might like to hear from us -- the families of the acutely mentally ill -- we are usually left out when decisions are made to close mental institutions or to legislate mental health laws.  We usually stand alone with no good samaritans in view when mental patients who have been "saved" from enforced treatment lay dead. 

Let us decrease the barriers to mental health treatment for our sick citizens.
 

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
P.O. Box 7222
Atlanta, GA  30357

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