When Mental-Health Experts, Not Police, Are the First Responders

Reminder that America used to have dedicated professionals with mental health training as frontline “first responders”. Those were the “men in white coats” (the ones coming to take you away, haha).

And I’ve seen this play before, next thing supporters will say “oh, for this program to really work we need the field agents backed by dedicated facilities adequately funded to have open beds for crisis admissions”

And we used to have those, too, that’s what sanitariums and insane asylums were!

(You can read the full article from clicking through at this tweet. idk)