Poll: priority for increasing public mental health funding

[Jamastiene]

2. If it wasn't for the fact that my local public mental health

was where I was told to "get right with God" after I got raped for being a lesbian, I might think of it as a priority. Not only that, but many local therapists both public and private believe in reparative/conversion therapy and offer ONLY that for the LGBT community here. Add to it that the local community college teaches that being gay is a mental illness using old textbooks, and I'm not sold on mental health being all that helpful to the public.

As a matter of fact, I would rather see public mental health equalized across the country. Either little homophobic shithole towns like mine (and I cannot imagine how much worse it might be in other small towns) stop pushing harmful anti-gay therapy or they get de-funded. THAT is what I want to see.

Only then would I see it anywhere near a priority, imo. If government funded community colleges and mental health clinics can get by with doing more harm to the LGBT community than good, and obviously, at least in my hometown, they can and will and do, I'd rather see the local one here completely stripped of funding until they stop teaching outdated bullshit and preaching at people who just got raped for being gay.

I will have to pass on this certain poll. Because of my experiences with public mental health, I don't think I can say I want it funded any more than it already is, without some major changes.