Editorial: 'Bedlam' shows us what we’ve done to our mental health system (via latimesopinion)
. It helps bring American audiences up to speed on their mental health care system 45 years after “Cuckoo’s Nest.”
In the film as in the book, Rosenberg documents the difficult lives of patients and their interactions with hospital staff, law enforcement officers and judges. It follows them to jail and to the streets. The scenes are harrowing and hard to watch.Perhaps the film’s most remarkable scenes focus on Monte Cullors, not just because of the troubled but resilient man that he is and his persistence through court hearings and homecoming celebrations but also because of who his greatest advocate is.
Rosenberg emphasizes that there is a stark lack of funding not just for treatment but for research. The seriously mentally ill account for a greater cost burden than all other noncommunicable diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, combined.Plus, a broader understanding of the problem in all its complexity. “
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