Society in a lot of areas look at the mentally ill as members that have behavior that is considered outside of what is normal and appropriate (Martin, 2014). This attitude toward the mentally ill has been one that started long before today and lead to institutionalizing the mentally ill in the past so they were …show more content…
In 1963 the Community Mental Health Centers Act (CMHC) was passed and approved funding for a new mental healthcare system that was focused on prevention and community based care (Martin, 2014). The CMHC was passed in 1963, but even today that amount of assistance and care for the mentally ill is limited. The mentally ill in today’s society are still looked at as different and not able to live in normal society due to how they are judged. We offer assistance for many different populations in society today, but when we look at what is offered for the mentally ill, they are still being judged like they were in the past. I live in a major city in Colorado and we have only one hospital in a city that has a population over 400,000 people that will offer the mentally ill assistance. That says a lot about how we treat a population within our society that may not have a choice of how the act or the deal with the issues they have. Assistance for the mentally ill is still being limited today due to how as a society we still look at those with a mental illness as outside of the normal spectrum of