 A recent interview on Newsmax with former Congressman, mental health advocate, and NSSC Policy Advisor Dr. Tim Murphy put into words what families, clinicians, law enforcement officers, and advocates have long known: America's mental health system too often arrives only after tragedy.
The pattern is familiar. A person shows escalating signs of psychiatric crisis. Family members plead for help. Systems respond that intervention thresholds have not been met. And the public conversation begins only after an arrest, a hospitalization, a violent encounter, or a death. We keep asking the wrong question. Not: How did we miss the warning signs? But: Why do we keep building systems that require catastrophe before they respond? A False Choice Between Liberty and Care
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