However, to blame gun violence on "the mentally ill" is as bigoted it would be to blame gun violence on "the black people," or on people of any other race, or on most of the other groups of people in the world.
The only time there's public discussion of mental health is when someone wants to blame "the mentally ill" for killing people.
What about all of the other murders that happen every day? Are those people considered sane?
The conflation of words such as "psychotic" with behavior as premeditated, organized and deliberate as the behavior required to plan a mass murder is reprehensible. It is both uninformed and misleading. It also contributes to a stigma that prevents people who need mental health care from trying to obtain it.
Copyright, with the exceptions of some information about what it's like to be diagnosed with a mental illness, L. Kochman, October 3, 2017 @ 5:59 p.m. No code, all policies operative, all the time.
