Mental Health Part 3: Accomodations and Solutions

Break it Down with Rick and Tim

Tim discusses the infrastructure for mental health. Where do we develop our shapes of reality in regard to development and critical thinking? Why does the topic of mental health have the stigma of shame associated with it? Seasonal Affective Disorder affects 20% of people living in the Pacific Northwest, including Rick. He shares how he was able to defeat it by using a therapy light. How do we support kids in the school environment? As a teacher, Tim thinks it would be ideal to have a teacher and a counselor for every classroom. Rick suggests the Internet and social media contribute to the well-being of a person’s mental health. You can’t control what people say but you can control how you react. Not everyone likes you, but not everyone matters. New York law allows for involuntary hospitalization when a person’s mental illness prevents them from providing for their own basic needs, as well as when they present a danger to themselves or others. Is that the answer for getting the drug-induced psychosis homeless population off the streets? What does a solid healthcare system that addresses mental health look like? Rick mentions how California's Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967, all but ending the practice of institutionalizing patients against their will in the state of California. The number of mentally ill people entering the criminal justice system doubled in the first year after the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act was enacted. When deinstitutionalization began 50 years ago, California mistakenly relied on community treatment facilities, which were never built. In this week’s “Let’s Trigger Rictor” segment, Tim asked Rick what his thoughts were on Brazil’s version of Donald Trump and where radicalization starts. Clips include TMZ’s Van Lathan standing up to Kanye West, TikTokker hopebraincenter, American History X (1998).