Yes. But. The chart doesn’t really capture the complexity of the overall problem - there's a lot of mental illness that's not hospitalized. In reality, many (or most) of us will experience cognitive decline if we are fortunate enough to live long lives. Toward the end, serious mental decline - of...

I recall in the early 70s, the rise of psycho-active drugs like thorazine, enabled the hospitals to empty out the mentally ill. It was the beginning of widespread homelessness and crime as these folks weren’t really healthy. Sad. The thorazine took the edge off the more violent patients.

We tend to only see the effect/symptom and never the cause which led to that. Same thing with a lot of problems resulting from poverty.

Aren't prisons more humane than mental hospitals ?