I found the issue of Mental Health wrongly absorbed as violent acts with guns. Many, and most mentally ill are timid due to the various stigma discriminations that we face on a daily basis. In my blog post on Social Abuse and Shame, the side-effect of Mental Health Stigma I briefly touch on discrimination against the mentally ill. I give a deeper look in my article Mentally ill vs. Criminally ill, where I give my opinion about guns and who is actually involved. Usually, a criminal not a mental health patient is who pulls that trigger. They need to look at that fact.
Hillary Clinton
"There's mental health and substance abuse, both of which are incredibly expensive, heart wrenching, and in many ways, unaddressed in communities across our country. We're supposed to have parity, that means, if you have a mental health problem you're supposed to get taken care of just like if you had some physical problem. There shouldn't be any distinction. Because the more we learn about genetics the more we learn about the way the body works we know there are connections don't we. And so we have argued very hard to remove the stigma on mental health." - January 6, Henderson, Nevada
Donald Trump
"We have a tremendous mental health problem. We're closing places all over the world. All over the country they're closing. Nobody's doing anything about that. All they want to do is blame the guns. And it's not the gun that pulls the trigger." - January 3, CBS's Face The Nation
Remember, there is the word list on mental health issues found at my blogpost- Vocabulary ABC's in Mental Health Circles
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Check out a newly discovered link about mental health at
www.mentalhealth.gov there you can find the latest in government
undertaking of helping those with mental illness live their lives as
normal as possible.