Marika on the social minister's solution for the mentally ill: "I think it's lame"

On the Mission Review Facebook page, people write after seeing how mentally ill Marika is evicted from her home and ends up in a shelter, among active addicts.

“I can't think of anything else from yesterday. Marika, we're thinking of you, you have to know that. "

“Please note that any of us citizens can suffer from illness like Marika. There is no fact about who will be affected. Therefore, it is sad to see how our common society treats the sick, who cannot do themselves. "

“Mission Review Health Marika. Tell her to keep fighting. She is my hero ”

The social service later changed its assessment and placed Marika on a short-term accommodation - but several people have wondered how things have gone since then. She tells Mission Review that she recently had a meeting with the social services after applying for a training apartment.

- But they said that if I continue to push my application, they will refuse. They want to wait and see. But what are they waiting for? Maybe if I'm going to have some kind of mental breakdown, but what if I get it because of this uncertainty, says Marika and continues:

- I'm going to show the forefoot now but don't know what it is soc want to see. I'm just worried, I'm terribly affected by the uncertainty.

In an interview on Marika's case, Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren (S) says that the municipalities bear the responsibility for all citizens being able to live according to their conditions, even with mental illness.

Marika thinks it's lame.

- We who need this help are looking for good institutions for those who need different types of places, not that people should be locked in like in the past. Psychiatric reform did not work. There is a need for a psychiatric reform 2. People die and it does not matter if Hallengren says that the municipalities should sharpen themselves.

When the program aired in SVT1 on Wednesday evening, Marika watched with a friend.

- It felt so good. I had rampage fever, so it was a relief when everything came out. We ate good cheese together and then I got such friendly messages from people.