Hell yes it did.

It also increased the amount of people with mental health issues 1000x

most of the clinics were fronts for all kinds of research/occult bullshit, created by the self-masterbaiting fruedians, and group-sex-jungians.

dualism was the best we could do for herd mentality.

There's a catch here. Mental hospitals dumped patients on the streets wholesale starting in the early 80's and the homeless numbers suddenly skyrocketed. Big surprise. They dumped them after Scientology did a sharia blue type of campaign targeting the media. Before that, mental hospitals kept patients in until they were stabilized and had somewhere to go.

Scientologists across the western world got a hold of relapsed ex-patients and flooded the msm with tales of bizarre torture and abuse and satanic bullshit that was crazy . Letters, calls and badgering demands no one knew was coming from the cult - to shut down the institutions gave governments the apparent justification for what they wanted to do anyway. Scientology opened up street front offices in every skid row to enroll the crazies in Scientology. They failed to herd them all in.

Most governments saw the expense of asylums as an impediment and couldn't just kick sick people out onto street because the citizens would have been outraged. Hence the very convenient campaign of Scientology convinced people that doctors and nurses were all satanic .psychopaths.

My grandmother was in a large mental hospital off and on, as she needed it, but more importantly, as her family needed it. Those hospitals were very active places. Family members were all through them visiting at odd times. People were not being chained to walls. The medical association issued a policy for their members not to rebut the character assassination that the witch hunt conducted.

Turns out it costs much more to deal with people as outpatients than inpatients.

Here's the catch: people have been conditioned to believe that homeless people are all mentally ill drug users, so it's out of their hands & there's nothing to be done for them. People displaced by refugees and immigration and family breakdown (mostly male) are homeless as well and get lumped in with the mentally ill. Being homeless would, I think lead to drug use. There's more than one thing going on and more than one answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry

Is this a trick question?

It definitely added to the lefty voter count.

In the late 70's a news reporter did a segment about metropolitan state hospital norwalk,Ca and how patient were being mistreated. LA county sheriffs and other emergency vehicles were used to remove patients to surrounding hospitals. I recall some patients being chained to beds and some laying in beds of shit and piss. Police even found dead bodys in janitor storage room. Google metropolitan state hospital norwalk and you can still find cruelty going on

Yes, yes it did.

Now, here is the dirty truth that the regressives do not want you to know: The mentally ill are better off on the street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School

The eradication of mental asylums was a huge blow to deep state experimentation. They started on the mentally ill after veterans started going over seas to be treated for atomic vet related illnesses, and they were terrified about what would happen if the word got out.

Most of the mk ultra research came out of the mental institutions, and they targeted sane people that got sent there by the state, on "accident".

Now that Hippa is being strictly enforced, the deep state wants to bring back mental institutions so that they can have secret human experiments that are protected from discloser by hippa.

Absolutely and gave way for them to demand special treatment for being kookoo in the gibblybits

No, @alopix went on welfare once he was out of the other taxpayer funded institution