guyfromohio
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Jmr....with freedom comes risk. Bad stuff happens.
Exactly. We cannot live in an entirely risk free world with padding on all sharp objects and speed bumps on all roads. It's not realistic or practical or even enjoyable.Jmr....with freedom comes risk. Bad stuff happens.
If someone is so dangerous or insane they shouldn't own guns, then I question why they are not institutionalized.
If someone is so dangerous or insane they shouldn't own guns, then I question why they are not institutionalized.
Would ya'll consider a functioning PTSD patient a mental illness even if he never has had any issues related to PTSD
Would ya'll consider a functioning PTSD patient a mental illness even if he never has had any issues related to PTSD?
Sounds like Andrea Yates, the lady who drowned her kids in Texas.Women that suffer from the condition seem to attack their kids but not the random public and not with a firearm.
Mental Illness is a canard, a backdoor gun grabbing scheme.
Yep...she was one of many. There was a woman that tried to drive her car into the surf with her kids to commit murder/sewercide. Every once in awhile on the news here we hear a report where a mother either killed or tried to kill her toddler aged children. Men do it too on occasion but rarely. But I can't remember when there was a mass murder via shooting or bombing on some campus or in some mall or office where a woman was the sole operative. Just a curious footnote to the mental illness subject and how it manifests itself across genders.Sounds like Andrea Yates, the lady who drowned her kids in Texas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Yates
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Not most, but many, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), who estimates a solid 25% of the population is mentally ill. See http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealthsurveillance/Watching the evening news night after night, you have to wonder .... if most folks don`t have some kind of mental illness.
I know a study that was done about Houston in the mid-seventies that involved several universities and their applicable disciplines. The study was being conducted to find out why there were so many road rage assaults on Houston freeways. Engineering departments...weather departments and medical school universities were involved in the extensive TXDOT study. The roads and their designs were fine...the weather did not play an influence etc. the only thing that could be determined in the boom and bust economy of an oil town was that the stress causedNot most, but many, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), who estimates a solid 25% of the population is mentally ill. See http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealthsurveillance/
At the end of the day, sometimes I think their numbers are conservative.
Just look to big pharma as the reason why there is such a push to prescribe psych-tropic drugs. It's a multi-billion dollar income for them and their advertisement and promotion budgets sum up to over a billion dollars a year. Then throw in general practitioners being essentially employees of insurance companies who don't want to pay for psychiatric help and it's pills...pills...and more pills. General practitioners are prescribing these meds with no more of a knowledge of what they will do or how they will interact than what a sizzling hot pharmacy salesperson tells them or the brochure says. But...the "patient" is diagnosed as depressed. While that may not be an issue now...as others have mentioned it could become an issue later under an administration that is not blocked by a conservative Congress or a moderate SCOTUS.Lately, and by lately I mean in the last 10-15 years, it seems that everything is an illness or disorder. Depression? Take these 20 pills. Anxiety? Another 5 pills. Not everything has a pill fix. I might be a little jaded since my local VA is trying to drown me in Rx scripts, but I digress.
By my personal definition, mental illness is anything going on in your head that makes you a danger to self or others, either through violence or difficulty managing your own affairs. Is PTSD an example using my definition? Not really. PTSD has different symptoms and triggers. Very small percentage are violent cases. Each mental illness has such a wide range of severity, I do not believe that anyone's medical file showing X mental illness should be treated the same. For example if you had a stack of files of autism, one turns violent, the rest of the people diagnosed with autism should lose their gun rights or other freedoms on the basis of public safety.