I’m not in anyway implying that it’s Catholics doing/fault the way these men in the photos are being treated or the way that people with mental illnesses are treated in general.What I’m suggesting is that as Catholics we need to be more vocal when we see others treating them this way.Eg:writing letters to politicians,calling on the Catholic Church to fund more Catholic run places or whatever else can be though of.People that do already help in some way should be more greatly aknowledged.
Different countries may be different too.In Australia here,there is an indifference from parishuoners and priests and there is no active attempts to try to welcome and encourage the severely mental ill to Church.There is two Catholic treatment places-one is run like government run places and the other is excellent where the patients are treated well however only the wealthy could afford to go there.
I didn’t quite understand the homosexuality comment.
UOTE=NeedImprovement;10586158]@ Cat Herder :
I was hoping someone would mention St. Dymphna . What she went through in her own life was pretty hair-raising.
I fail to see the connection : The OP posts some pictures from a prison which is state-run ; but in a way that would seem to imply the question whether this is somehow the Church’s fault.
As a personal assistant to a severely disabled priest who spent the last 10 years of his life in a long term-/palliative care facility , and who served 16 years prior to those last 10 as a chaplain in a home which served to re-integrate people suffering from more difficult cases of mental illness back into society , I find the insinuations to be rather insulting.
I also know a gentleman who runs 3 different homes for patients with mental illnesses - which receives them once they’ve been released from their respective psychiatric wards - because no one else wants them or can live with them - including their families. He once opened a new center in a neighboring town and was forced to move it elsewhere - the civil authorities let him know they weren’t welcome there. . . it was the local authorities - not the Church who did the dirty deed.
Where the OP’s post misses the point most tragically is that it would imply/presume, much as those who come here to promote active homosexuality , that our own family and/or its members are somehow immune to mental illness because they have Catholics in them . That’s an error. And as someone who has family members and friends (one of whom committed suicide at the tender age of 26) who struggle with mental illness, I posit that whether the OP’s assertion is based on ignorance or not , I find its approach both unrealistic and offensive.
Maybe it would be a good idea to read around these forums a little when someone comes here before they end up posting something that could offend some of our other members who are doing such a great job too :
Catholics and Mental Illness
Returning to the real world , here we are told by experts that 1 in 5 Canadians will suffer from some form of mental illness in their lives :
Statistics on the prevalence of mental disorders and related suicides in Canada
Finally, I would note that the OP’s post has tried to position active homosexuality as something separate from mental illness . Many of us on these forums are already aware that the only reason the APA removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders was that they were intimidated into doing it by the gay militants. There was no scientific basis to remove it.
Homosexual Activists Intimidate American Psychiatric Association into Removing Homosexuality from List of Disorders 
In fact, most “religious anti-psychiatry” has come from Protestants like Jay Adams, and even Catholic exorcists are careful to stress the difference between mental illness and demonic possession.