By: Gerry Dorrian
I was intereted to read the quote from the Canadian Mental Health Association saying that people with mental helath problems with some degree of psychosis can be violent because they feel threatened,...
View ArticleBy: XtinaS
We know that mental health care is hard to come by for people who are low-income or rural or non-native English speakers. But Adam Lanza was none of those things, and neither were many of the men who...
View ArticleBy: macavitykitsune
Oh, for fuck’s sake. The only “mental illness” most of these violent fuckers have is White Whine, and the last I checked it wasn’t in the DSM. This is not a mental health issue; this is an “assholes...
View ArticleBy: macavitykitsune
Two further points: 1) I used “mass murderer” to refer to spree shooters. Valoniel’s currently educating me on the difference and I meant to say the latter, lol. 2) Jill, I don’t actually disagree with...
View ArticleBy: Fat Steve
I find it more and more difficult to believe that anyone in this country defines psychopathy or sociopathy as a mental illness. One needs to look no further than the behavior of this countries highest...
View ArticleBy: vanessa
There is a difference between mental illness (often treatable or at least manageable) and psychopathy. We know, for example, that the instigator in the Columbine massacre was a psychopath. It is...
View ArticleBy: Radiant Sophia
I realize that I’m probably going to be attacked for this, but I need to say it. I could have been him. I suffer from a repeatedly misdiagnosed mental illness. I have no name for it other than the ones...
View ArticleBy: Jadey
I totally agree with the need for better mental health supports for *everyone* on the simple fact of this being a matter of basic human dignity and need, but I was really disheartened to hear the...
View ArticleBy: Jadey
we have no idea what to do with psychopaths, because traditional therapy only makes them much, much more dangerous. The research around that isn’t entirely consistent, actually. The effect has been...
View ArticleBy: Sarah Harper
But you’re not him. And you know why, too: because you weren’t raised to confront your problems with aggression and violence. That is the heart of the issue. I just posted about this on my blog–trying...
View ArticleBy: macavitykitsune
Sorry, Donna, I thought this: Plus, I get that parenting him isn’t easy, but she sure as hell isn’t making it any easier on herself by going to war with him over what color pants he wears was the part...
View ArticleBy: Donna L
what is going to happen to her when he goes through puberty? Why aren’t we worried about her as well as her other kids? I’m sure the future terrifies her. I know a number of parents who’ve admitted to...
View ArticleBy: Shadow
@EG My mistake, I had missed that. I was under the impression that she only feared (rightfully) that he was a danger to her and her family. In that case, I have no issue with what she’s done @Mac...
View ArticleBy: Shadow
@EG My mistake, I had missed that. I was under the impression that she only feared (rightfully) that he was a danger to her and her family. In that case, I have no issue with what she’s done @Mac...
View ArticleBy: macavitykitsune
The only thing I don’t support is mentally ill people being outed to their community unless the community needs to know. Well, I don’t know. If someone had informed my mother that my abuser had a long...
View ArticleBy: Esti
“Grooming” is not a crime. Child abuse certainly is, but I haven’t read anything that suggests that she was abusive toward her son. Do I think it’s a terrible, terrible idea for people to keep firearms...
View ArticleBy: White Rabbit
@speedbudget There was the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania where the shooter let all the boys go and lined all the girls up before he shot them systematically. And the women’s gym shooting. And...
View ArticleBy: pheenobarbidoll
http://wonkette.com/493344/sorry-everyone-now-we-are-not-allowed-to-talk-about-mental-health-either Maybe Liza Long, who wrote about her violent son, is a lying monster who only cares about pageviews....
View ArticleBy: William
I can’t speak to the whole of the US but it has been my experience that Asperger’s isn’t generally used as a garbage can diagnosis unless the patient is pretty clearly on the spectrum. Sometimes I see...
View ArticleBy: William
I still think that the way they put the spectrum together, especially leaving out ADHD, is going to lead to a lot of medication and pathologizing that doesn’t need to happen. Sure, the criteria say...
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