Response Posts Explain why you agree or disagree with at least two other classma

Response Posts
Explain why you agree or disagree with at least two other classmates’ responses
Provide at least two examples and one credible resource to support each response
Below there are two seperate discussion post for reply, Please reply to each student with two reference each.
TM
Based on my experience primarily working in the emergency department and emergency medical services, it is apparent that our mental health system is devastatingly broken. In the state of Florida, police officers, physicians, and other mental health professionals can place an individual under a Baker Act, which serves as an involuntary mental health evaluation that lasts a minimum of seventy-two hours unless it is otherwise revoked (Florida Mental Health Act, 2021). During this process, a patient is under constant care and supervision, they are stripped of all their personal belongings, and in my current department, these patients are unable to use the bathroom unaccompanied. Sometimes, these patients spend upwards of fifty to sixty hours waiting to be placed in a psychiatric facility. Violent patients that are experiencing a mental health crisis tend to be tackled, restrained, and medicated, sometimes in severe cases intubated. There have been multiple occasions where my life has been threatened and I have been physically attacked, however, these patients are experiencing something I do not understand.
As a result, I believe individuals that genuinely need help before going into a severe mental health crisis do not get help due to the fear of losing their rights. Personally, aside from the resources provided from Rasmussen, I would not even know how to start obtaining mental health services. On the contrary, others may take advantage of this system, viewing this baker act hold as a guaranteed bed and meal for seventy-two hours. While the primary purpose from a medical professional’s standpoint is to protect these high-risk patients, the process is challenging to adhere to since some of the stipulations to protect these patients almost seem dehumanizing. There are moments when it is challenging to support a process that does not seem effective in my eyes, at least in the beginning stages of treatment in the emergency department. After seven years in the field, it is still heartbreaking to witness a patient at the peak of their mental health crisis and from my perspective never know how they recover, unless they constantly return for help.
AM
I think the mental health system today in our country is broken. According to John Snook “an estimated 8.3 million adults in the United States have a severe illness. At any given time, 3.9 million go untreated”. Patients that get the treatment and support they need can end up living long happy and healthy lives, but for those who go untreated, the likelihood of them living those long healthy, and happy lives declines. Many of these patients are denied the healthcare they need and in turn become judged and criminalized by the symptoms of their illness. Snook had a perfect example of this, “When someone has a heart attack, an ambulance takes them to an emergency room. When someone is in the depths of psychosis, however, police are called and frequently cart that person off to jail” (John Snook, 2018).
In many cases with children, parents will reach out for help, but if the child is too taken over by their illness and does not comprehend that they need help and treatment and are unable to seek care for themselves they get dismissed until it is too late. In turn, the child becomes dangerous to themselves or others around them. Without treatment, the patient can take matters into their own hands and take their own life. In other cases “two million are booked into jail each year”. The patients decline rapidly, become maltreated, do not receive the care they need, and many die in jail. If these patients got the proper care, treatment, and support that they require many would live longer and healthier lives with fewer additional health concerns. As well as less homelessness on the streets. We need to do better, be better. People need more support and financial assistance so there are fewer and fewer falling through the cracks and becoming homeless and ending up in jail for issues that can be managed through proper healthcare (John Snook, 2018).