One of the hardest parts about this is healthcare and who is going to pay for all of this. Without proper coverage and treatment for everyone, this will continue to be an issue. The reason most of the facilities were closed down were due to improper treatment for the patients. The other being over population. We can't lock everyone up. The choices in a lot of cases is either lock them up or drug them. Speaking as someone on the cusp...I don't want either. Yet daily life outside, working and being around people really is too much. Yet I have to do it.

Mental health education does need to be addressed. I am admittedly suicidal and yes I take antidepressants. It is far worse when I am not on medication and I do think the medication can enhance that feeling. Since the medication either enhances or depresses certain receptors it changes the feelings you have buy increasing or decreasing the 'feeling'. It doesn't create suicidal thoughts. I am only putting this out there because there are many that feel it creates the suicidal feeling and thought. It doesn't, it enhances or is depressed from what the person is already feeling. I don't want to die. Personally, I want to live, explore, grow. Yet when that thought or feeling comes in, it is debilitating. I know it will pass, but the urges and feelings that go with it are unbearable.

LOL, I keep going off on a tangent that should be a post of its own.

Still great points.