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Why don't we talk about mental health care?

I see a lot of people discussing the pros and cons of gun control, guns in schools, etc. but not many people talking about the real issue that lead to Friday's school shooting, a poor system to give mental health services and identify those who might need mental health services. Lets be honest, no amount of gun control short of banning the ownership of all guns (which is not going to happen) would have prevented Friday's tragedy. Armed teachers would not have prevented this man from entering school and opening fire. This shooter clearly had some underlying issues that someone should have spotted and acted upon prior to this incident. Most people, even people who do horrible things, are not going to wake up and decide to shoot up the school.

So why don't we talk about the real issue, the lack of appropriate mental health care in our country?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    we spend too much money on prisons, security & armed forces (the things that protect the interests of the super rich) to pay for things like mental health care

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I agree that scientific care at this ingredient for psychological misery is somewhat ineffective besides with meds no longer being an answer the two... document will prescribe what he's delicate with or with in spite of the latest drug pusher has confident him to purchase into... terrific hotel for me and hundreds of others interior the psychological well-being community in NYC is "buying in" to the restoration kind i'd been clinically determined psychiatrically for the 1st time whilst i became 7 with minimum techniques disease yet then they examined my IQ which became throughout the roof and not in any respect consistent with MBD so my real prognosis became lazy and delinquent (back interior the '50s) the restoration kind works on a strengths foundation incredibly than the deficit foundation the classic scientific kind is going by using... it particularly works with what's suited with you and builds on that incredibly than what's incorrect i'm now fifty 5, med and therapist-loose, content with my artwork, looking forward to the destiny, proactive approximately my psychological well-being the West pathologizes too plenty... human beings in third worldwide worldwide places fare extra effective than we do interior the psychological well-being branch... they take care of their own and function extra tolerance for quirks... they artwork on the guy's strengths as a great way by fact the reason for many psychological misery? IMHO that's human beings, places and issues.... how we react to our life adventure, the interactions we've had with our elders... in many circumstances we are only mimicing the behaviors we found out from the folk entrusted with our care... i'm no longer even particular anymore that i've got self assurance that MH matters are hereditary... we are what we study to be

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