“A barbaric, horrific, murderous system”

Is the villainous system, the healthcare industry that should have developed a kinder more efficient way of finding rooms and placement for an obviously distressed patient?

Perhaps, our healthcare systems are overwhelmed.

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Is the villainous system the psychologists and psychiatrists who take their deeply depressed patients’ money, yet fail, ultimately, to cure them?

Perhaps, the mental health professionals actually did provide the best standard of care.

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Is the villainous system the patient’s circle of friends and relatives who failed to stay with him, who failed to enroll him, earlier, in a more intensive therapeutic setting?

Perhaps, they tried.

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Is the villainous system the people who remain silent about the gaps in healthcare, or is it the people who tweet, write, and demonstrate about the gaps, but who spend less time actually filling in the gaps, prior to their getting plugged?

How do we decide?

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Is the villainous system our G-d, as it were, who allows mental illness to ravage those who carry the diagnosis, to impact the friends and relatives who are oftentimes held hostage by suffering person’s suicidality and/or homicidality?

We don’t know. We just don't know

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