{"id":411,"date":"2004-05-12T00:52:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T08:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/12\/abandon-hope\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:29","slug":"abandon-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/12\/abandon-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandon Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funds for mental health services to the low-income uninsured have been slashed in Texas, a state which ranks near the bottom of all states in regard to funding human services.  I had hopes that places like Washington, with a better reputation for mental health services, would be unscathed, or would manage better than Texas.  Well, Philip Dawdy writes in <a title=\"Seattle Weekly: News: Give Them Shelter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/features\/0418\/040505_news_shelter.php\">Seattle Weekly: Give Them Shelter<\/a> that mandated cuts in funding due January 1 will result in 2000 people being unassisted and on the streets in King County alone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Already, the agency is making stark choices. Do they keep treating a long-term schizophrenic who\u00c2\u2019s begun to improve and deny treatment to a new patient? Or do they treat the new person and cut off the other\u00c2\u2019s care? Untreated, the first one will most likely have a psychotic episode and end up in the hospital or jail or worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now <em>that<\/em> is insane.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/ectophensis.com\/weblog\/yin\/index.html\">Chad<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funds for mental health services to the low-income uninsured have been slashed in Texas, a state which ranks near the bottom of all states in regard to funding human services. I had hopes that places like Washington, with a better reputation for mental health services, would be unscathed, or would manage better than Texas. Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12946,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/12946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}