My guy.

The overwhelming number of people who were in asylums were not "committed" there or in any way court-ordered to be there. We used to have sanatoriums, wards, and asylums galore, and they were largely not for criminals or enemies of the State. They were for people who were either serially unfit to be left in their own care, and who didn't have sufficient involved community to take care of them.

The loss of these institutions is felt everywhere. Now we have the unstable and unfit, pumped-up with psyche-altering, mood-altering, personality-altering, reality-altering pharmaceuticals, and shoved back into the societal mix. They're free to menace normal citizens, and free to swap mental illness back-and-forth like cupcake recipes with other broken people, compounding their damage.

We need these places back.