" Butler struggles to meet demand.... "

Given our generally dysfunctional mental health system, it is not surprising that " Butler struggles to meet demand, despite recent addition " ( front page  story, September 2 )  Is a seriously mentally ill person likely to keep a job for very long and have the very best health insurance ?

      But I was struck by the last sentence  of Richard Salit's artcle :  "  Patients aren't treated only for psychiatric, but other ailments that they might have due to emotional issues ".   Does the mental health profession need to be reminded that  patients - often wrongly or over-medicated on toxic anti-psychotic drugs- also have bodies AND souls ?  I have witnessed some patients being treated as a mere lithium regulation problem. The good doctors  were oblivious of their spiritual crisis: Job like, these tormented souls wonder about their eternal night. Or the good doctors don't notice a man's swollen jaw from an infected tooth.

       You visit them  after  their nth crackup  in Rhode Island Hospital and observe that their personal hygiene is neglected,  and they are shivering for lack of a warm robe. And then they are discharged with no transportation provided.  Imagine a discharged patient talking to himself and walking back to Cranston on a very hot summer afternoon ? Is all this medical science ?