The currently government IS lacking in this area of social welfare, and more needs to be done, to help these who had been diagnosed with a mental illness to get back into the society, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
In recent years, there had been many attacks of mentally ill on members of the public, but, most of the articles discussed how the perpetrators are, mentally ill, it’d made the public even more fearful of those who have a psychological disorder; and the patients as well as their families, are also fearful too, to the point of not wanting others to know of their conditions, refusing to get treatments, because they couldn’t withstand the weird gawks by others if others knew about them being treated by a psychiatrist. This isn’t what we want to see at all.
Because of the recent T.V. hit, “The Distance Between Us & Evil”, it’d made the public more aware of schizophrenia. Actually, after being properly treated, schizophrenia can be controlled, and those diagnosed can start living an ordinary life, and I hope, that the public can be without discrimination, and help those diagnosed with the illness to continue getting the help they needed.
What’s scariest, is how to deal with the attitude of the society, not the illnesses or the patients themselves. There had been many advancements in psychological disorder treatment and diagnoses in Taiwan by the day, but, it’s more focused on hospitalizing the patients, and, there were the families that, after dumping their loved ones in the institutions, they’d, let go of their caretaking responsibilities, and, the patients stay in the ward for over a decade at a time, there are almost nothing being done in the local communities, and, where would the patients go after they’d become, stabilized? There’s, absolutely NOTHING on the matters of helping them get work, assisting them in establishing normal social interactions, and because of the lacking in these, the patients usually feel ashamed of themselves, and couldn’t get themselves out of the treatment centers.
Allowing the patients to have a complete set of training skills, acquaint them with the work environment, along with the problems they may face in the workforce too (employment and counseling), so they can meet up to the expectation of performance of the people who hire them, with the interactions between the healthcare, social welfare and labor departments, setting up a long-term support system, to help these mental patients return back to their normal lives, with more opportunities of encouragements given to them by the society, it would, surely, help the cases to return back to their families, as well as getting back into the society too.
And because, there’s this, BAD name for these mental illnesses, that is why, people who are diagnosed are, ostracized, and it isn’t even their fault, and, the world still isn’t welcoming, accepting to these minorities in the population who have these mental illnesses, more needs to be done for their welfare.
Life, the Obstacle Course 