However, even with that, I think I'd be limited to something 5 years for mental health related benefits. And incarceration voids the policy too.
You know, I wonder if the last bit is actually a 'good thing'. I recently looked it up, something like 55% of our prison and jail populations have a mental health problem in addition to a criminal one. Elsewhere I have used this to shut up a person who said 'But the mentally ill aren't criminals!' Sure, being mentally ill might not point to you being a criminal. But the
reverse is certainly true.
I'm not saying that the mentally ill cannot commit a crime, but I am of the belief that the cruelest punishment is one that doesn't work. As such, as expensive as it might be,
treating the mentally ill, in prison and out of it, can help keep people from being imprisoned, whether for the first time or not. Jail and prison is
expensive, avoiding that expense can be justified even at relatively high spending levels.
Wow, bipolar and depressive .... caused by work?
I'd imagine that being a congressman is stressful work? The amount he gets is mostly because congresscritters make good money.