Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Yes, please go on to read the parts about substance abuse, and the more recent SAMHSA meta-analysis/reports about substance abuse and prior incidents of violence.

I’m providing direct evidence. And frankly, this idea that it’s not a sign of any kind of mental illness for someone to go into a public place and murder people mostly at random, is so potentially damaging that it blows my mind you don’t see the implications of it.

There are over 100 million gun owners with over 350 million unregistered guns in this country. If mass shootings were not a sign of mental illness, we’d *all* be shot by now.

Tens of thousands of us are each year. Mostly women by violent domestic partners. So common it rarely makes national news. But, by the same logic, we’d have all been shot by folks with MI now, too, since that number is 1 in 5.

Again, not all MI results in outward violence. Of the 33-35,000 gun deaths we have each year, 2/3 are suicides. I assume you believe the overwhelming majority of those suicides are related to mental-health issues, right? Why not assume similarly about the homicides?

We’re back to square one. Again, I argue the violence (even towards oneself) as a way to solve problems in our society is the issue at play, not MI. It appears we’re at an impasse. But with support of mental health parity and more research in MI & stigma, we’ll figure it out.