If they fail they should be partitioned from society and monitored until counceling brings them to mental stability.
I’m seeing mental problems everywhere; in person and online (name your social media). Most people are clearly mentally unhealthy, they are polarized, sociopathic, delusional, depressed, etc crossing way passed unsafe levels, and we just let them crawl around society.
Now we all can verify that mental problems are increasing rapidly but the numbers would be much higher if they actually were all reported.
I’m going to leverage my connections in society to push a bill to make this reality
Four years ago, I managed to finally find a medical practice in my area that was accepting new patients. Earliest available appointment was 6 weeks away, so I scheduled it and then waited.
A couple nights before my check-up, something came up (maybe dog was sick that night) and I got next to no sleep that night. Still had to work the next day so I didn’t get a chance to catch up on sleep, and then the following night something else happened (partner was having night terrors). Then I go in for my check-up the following day with a couple sleepless nights under my belt, which was not typical at all, feeling like complete poop, and they have me fill out a psychological questionnaire.
There were questions like “In the last 5 days, how many nights have you had trouble sleeping?” “Do you currently feel tired or irritable” “In the past 5 days have you had trouble staying awake during your normal daily activities” and many other that don’t really take any real history or perfectly reasonable explanations about why the last 5 days were outliers.
Anyway, the outcome is that I was immediately labeled as high anxiety and depression risk based on that one assessment. And now four years later, every time I go to the primary care place, they push me to go get psychiatric testing and ask about my anxiety and depression.
Honestly it really felt like a real-life equivalent of the “Not-sure” scene from Idiocracy and I definitely don’t want that having actual real world consequences on me.
On the other hand, I’ve seen numerous people even just here on Lemmy over the past few years who seem very likely to be mentally unwell and there’s a part of me that thinks it would be nice if there was a way I could help them.