I have been emotionally abused at almost every psychiatric facility where I have been since the conglomerate began sexually harassing me in 2010. All of the places where I was sexually harassed denied that I was being sexually harassed, and they said that I was delusional and paranoid; they were lying.
At some of the places where that abuse was happening, there were totally illegal, hidden video cameras in the bathrooms, invading the privacy of every patient and creating permanent victims of voyeurism and involuntary pornography.
At my last written blog, "The Fact of Me," I published a lot of pictures of medical records that I obtained from one of the mental hospitals where I have been in the Boston area. Several of the staff people at that hospital wrote vicious lies about me almost every day; I know that they were like many staff at many hospitals, and not just about me. In addition to lying, many of them were practically illiterate. It would be shocking to everyone except mental patients how bad the quality of most mental health care is, if society knew about it.
I think that there should be a lot more gun control than there is. However, incorporating mental health history as part of the background check to buy a gun would add to the second-class citizenship that people with psychiatric histories already have. Many people who have psychiatric histories are much more emotionally and mentally stable than people who have never even talked to a therapist; those who ask for help might take some time to get it, but that's the system's fault, not theirs. Many people who have a lot of emotional and mental problems don't think that they do or would never talk to anyone about it; having no psychiatric history is not a guarantee that you are a healthy person.
There are a lot of people who get admitted to mental hospitals because they are so abused in their lives outside hospitals that they have breakdowns. Why should the people who abused them be able to buy guns to frighten or kill them with, while the victims of abuse are officially stigmatized so that they could never buy guns to protect themselves?
I have gotten through being homeless for the past 4 of 5 years without carrying a weapon of any kind. I have no interest in buying a gun, and I think that gun control is important and a priority for the United States. What continues to sadden and sicken me is the refusal of the conglomerate to take responsibility for how its promotion of bullying and physical violence is affecting the world.
The conglomerate formed in 2010.
Those are pictures from today of graphs that I found by doing a Google search of the term "U.S. shootings since 2008 graph."
That's the Web address for the Images section of search results for that Google search.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, January 5, 2016 @ 7:14 p.m.
