No Country for Old Men with a plot twist ✝️ @p82home • serving families affected by serious mental illness with @GeeslingMatthew • cowboy fast-draw
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A THREAD 🧵 HOW DID WE GET HERE?
The day Decarlos Brown Jr. crossed paths with Iryna Zarutska on a NC light rail train ended in tragedy. Minutes later she was dead.
This was not an isolated event. It was the outcome of decades of broken policy on serious mental illness.
The IMD Exclusion is one of the quietest rules in Medicaid law yet it has fueled homelessness, incarceration & tragedy for decades. This thread traces how we got here & why it must end.
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BIG: The Trump administration is reversing the inside track it created to fast-track psychedelic drug approvals for insider companies. I hope they will continue this good work and shut down the rushed marijuana rescheduling effort as well.
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U.S. Spends $15 Billion A Year Incarcerating People With Serious Mental Illness
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Many individuals who suffer from severe mental illness can't consent to treatment not because they don't want help, but because their illness prevents them from understanding they're sick at all.
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My recent research examined five randomized controlled trials involving 3,205 high-need individuals experiencing homelessness. Every trial recorded higher mortality among participants assigned to Housing First. When pooled, the results showed a statistically significant 41% higher risk of death.
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President Trump secured our border and homelessness dropped.
Even the New York Times admits the credit goes to @POTUS for getting criminal illegals off our streets.
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When i started psychiatry 60 yrs ago, "patient's rights" was a new & thrilling concept- returning to them the dignity as citizens they deserved.
It instead became society's excuse for cruel neglect- patients die/are homeless/in jail "with their rights on".
“I can’t help but wonder what her life could look like if we cared as much about her suffering as we do about her right to be left alone.”
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“I can’t help but wonder what her life could look like if we cared as much about her suffering as we do about her right to be left alone.”
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"One instant at home with Jesus, and you’ll know that you’ve been in a foreign land all your life." @JohnPiper
Four ladies clean my house while I sit in my room trying to relax and read a book.
I think of the disciples when Jesus began washing their feet…
“Peter said to him, ‘You shall never wash my feet.’ Jesus answered him, ‘If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.’” – John 3:18
I know Jesus was talking about what he would ultimately do for them at the cross, but I feel a kinship with Peter today. It’s hard to receive. Grace is scandalous, and we think we must bring something to it.
Just as I think I must help these ladies, when it’s foolish and I could hurt myself even more. God has me in a place of complete impotence.
That is exactly how it is with my sin. I’m completely unable to bring myself from death to life. He must do it all or I have no share with him.
Romans 3:23-28
Ephesians 2:1-10
Galatians 4:4-7
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This book by Jesslyn McCutcheon will be released on November 17. Honored to endorse this devotional that points readers to the hope found in Scripture. Jesslyn, who battles bipolar disorder, knows the fight all too well.
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Serious psychotic disorders are medical conditions that deserve treatment, not incarceration or abandonment. Excellent post.
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Terrific game changing news for people with severe mental illness who now have 20 yearr reduced lifespan.
New weight loss drugs dramatically reduce mortality & may even improve psych symptoms.
BUT terrible news: Ridiculously expensive & often inaccessible.
Among adults with serious mental illness, #GLP1 receptor agonists vs #SGLT2 inhibitors were associated with lower mortality and fewer major cardiovascular events, with greater absolute benefit in serious mental illness. ja.ma/3UysZQH
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Notice how this Canadian doctor doesn't even mention pain or suffering when pitching euthanasia as the ideal way to die. It's framed as a solution for loneliness and anxiety. But people who are lonely and afraid deserve love and care, not hastened death.
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It’s one of those days where it feels like 30 years worth of neglected grief is pressing through every cell in your body.
The spirits moving through our world seem to be gaining both weight and speed. We live at a magnitude for which our souls were not made.
And yet the beauty of Grace is infinite.
The fresh lightness of eternal life springs up from hidden places - whose portals are the communion of Saints and the beauties of nature - bringing lightness and light for no reason other than love.
Diamonds are forged beneath the weight of the world.
I’ll be flat on my back, but our amazing community will still be working to help open Kenny’s Home!
Two dates, one goal: opening Kenny’s Home! Save Dec. 1 for Giving Tuesday and Dec. 5 for a day of giving at Fire & Brimstone. Plus, a personal update.
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Congrats to @sarahsalviander on the release of this beautiful book!
Stunning images of the cosmos paired with powerful reflections that will fill you with awe and draw you closer to God.
I’m a little biased (I edited the book) but trust me—it’s great.
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Street conditions are the visible end of a spending model that never had to report results. Dollars flow to housing units, outcomes go unmeasured, and the untreated mental illness and addiction driving unsheltered homelessness go untouched.
Our research found that between 2013 and 2024, despite a more than 200% increase in the supply of permanent supportive housing, unsheltered homelessness surged 28% nationwide.
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