No, I am not in a mental ward, but a daughter works at one. She said things have been going along fine till recently, when one of the two TVs went out on football Saturday. She said things got loud and weird. Even crazy folks (my word, not hers. God forbid somebody calls em crazy) watch football. Said they all went nuts (pun intended) when Texas whupped Alabama. I wonder if that means more crazies support Texas over A&M.

T-sips are crazy. Aggies are just "touched."

I thought all the hospital's were closed.

Go spend a day in College Station and then a day in Austin observing the locals in each locale.
You be the judge as to the craziness.

Terrell = crazy

Rusk = crazy criminal

I’m sure there’s plenty more. There needs to be more. I think, which I may be wrong, that there are private and state institutions, but no more federal institutions since maybe the 70s

Where does Witchita Falls come in

Feed them THC and they won't do that crap.

Well.....right off the bat, Austin has had the slogan "Keep Austin Weird" for at least a couple of decades.

And I'd say they've done a damn find job of it. So pretty much no contest.

Glad I don't live there any more.

How would you know?

There are 10 of them.

I didn't know how many or if any at all were open. All I ever hear is they need to reopen the hospitals when referring to someone that needs treatment. Well, it's good to know that they are still open.

I thought this was a thread about the Whitehouse.

Who do we throw in the padded room first?

Had problums at mental ward got tired of poor treetmint dont care bout little man pore money no help bit guard on mushroom head broke window ran like pappy said. been wondering round the woods lookin' for big black toy dropped from treestand need to find don't feel right less close to me orange man fault trump about trump need break can't hunt texas

A person has to be really bad off to be committed to a state hospital by a magistrate. I can only think of a handful from my whole career.

I’ve only known one

That sounds like 1860.colt.

Yea that was spot on I actually had to check the name of who wrote it.

Most of them closed in the 1980s thanks to 3 landmark rulings in cases brought by the ACLU. Those cases effectively got rid of the government's ability to impose indefinite involuntary commitment. Once that happened it was pointless to keep the facilities open. A lot of them were in disrepair anyway and were wretched places to be.

I think I had 4 people total. Ten facilities are still going and are very needed.

Some of the answers are n researching "deinstitutionalization of mental health in America".

My last one lived in alleys in Como. She would run out and grab stuff off grills while people were cooking. She couldn’t even communicate and was essentially just feral. Her family gave the blessing for the victims of a burglary to cooperate with me because she was completely gone and couldn’t take care of herself. I arrested her and the DA did a psychological evaluation. A district judge committed her to Witchita Falls.