On mental health and US Attitudes to it

[nadinbrzezinski]

It used to be that if you had a mental condition you would not go seek help.

I wonder if that has changed?

Just from the choice words used for some of these people who have gone over the deep end... no matter whether it was Cho, who's care was not followed, or Columbine, or what have you.

Look at the posts.

We truly have a sorry attitude about mental health, and you may ask WHY? Well it is this libertarian by your bootstraps attitude that people have about it.

Now I am not too convinced that today's events were a single shooter event... nor that this had to do necessarily with just mental heath, though that may very well be a component. But realize this... more of this will come down the pike... and we need to get over our allergy to mental health. Calling people psychos helps nothing and nobody.

[sam sarrha]

1. how can a ReThuglican call himself a "Representative" of his people and feel self righteous about

the poor deserving what they get...because they believe that 'wealth' is the measure of how god favors a man/corporation, therefore... it is a sin against god to tax a rich man. it is also a sin against god to help a poor man, because god is punishing the poor man with poverty

[BeatleBoot]

2. A Republican - Pete Domenici - former Senator

Helped immensely in this regard.

See the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.

I believe he had a relative with schizophrenia and he reached across the aisle to work on this bill which is now law.

Probably my only post on here calling out a puke as doing something good for once.

But to your point, I agree.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Even pukes do some things right

and to Domenici


:toast:

On this account he also deserves this

:patriot:

Now on other things... not so much...

[undergroundpanther]

4. Mentally ill people

Suffer from their illnesses and psychiatric injuries.

Psychopath people are NOT mentally ill. They do not suffer they feel nothing,have no guilt shame or remorse.They feel no emotional pain,when they cause others harm or distress.Psychopathy,sociopathy authoritarian personality types are incurable, no therapy or medicine changes them .So their problem is not a mental illness,the problem rests with who they are as people the type of personality they have.Psychopaths are not mentally ill.. When non-psychopathic people are around a psychopath it causes non-psychopaths mental suffering to be in proximity to a psychopath.Psychopathy is a personality disorder: an unchanging, trait-based condition, not a mental disease or illness.
So please STOP lumping the mentally ill people and psychiatric injured people(pstd) in with the NOT mentally ill psychopaths.

I hate the slurs,nuts,psycho,crazy loonie..I hate the implication that having pstd or depression or schizophrenia makes a person dangerous or evil,I hate it when suffering people get called THE PROBLEM..or worse told they are losers and should just'get over it'.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1525676/psychopathy_a_discussion_of_the_disorder.html?cat=38

http://personalitydisorders.suite101.com/article.cfm/can_psychopaths_be_rehabilitated

http://www.medicinenet.com/mental_illness/article.htm


Seems the mentally ill & the overweight are people that continually get bashed and blamed even by so called sensitive liberals.