Back in the day, there were "loony bins".
They were horrible places, & empathetic people campaigned against them, but made little headway, until the new generation of "market forces" warriors gained power.
They discovered that keeping insane people in asylums was incredibly costly, & even better, if they were closed, the properties they were on could be sold off to Housing Developers for lots of lovely money.
Suddenly, in an unlikely alliance of empathy & parsimony, the asylums were closed, & the residents thrust out onto the streets for "treatment in the community".
Some spent the rest of their lives wandering around the streets muttering to themselves, others established a presence on Youtube!
