Cayman Net News: Finding a Place for the Mentally Unwell

Finding a Place for the Mentally Unwell

Reader comments:

One has to ask the question "What is a mentally unfit" person. Obviously, someone who does not have the capacity to control their mental state. Or at least that is closer to the answer than to say that a person who is mentally deficient, that is, lacking in their mental growth to their age level or above, is a mentally unfit person. For too long now, people in the Cayman Islands who are deaf mutes, or have hearing or other such problems are referred to as "dummies", and are not given the opportunity to learn and meet their potential. To put someone in Northward Prison or a mental ward just because they are not mentally mature to their age level, seems grossly cruel. If they are a danger to themselves and others, that is a different matter, but we must adapt to a more humane and appropriate method of caring and providing for them - Naomi Oyog