There are too many articles using variations on Quiet – Shy – With a History of Mental Illness in relation to the Newtown shooting.
After each tragedy, we hear QUIET SHY WITH A HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
How many of us can be described as
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/ December 19, 2012How many more “history of mental illness” before they get the picture and start looking into it further. No, it was the gun that did it, lets spend our money fighting that.
anxietyadventures
/ December 19, 2012I think we need to look at mental health treatment and stigma as well, but you’re right, we need real action on gun control
jiltaroo
/ December 19, 2012So true…it just throw all kinds of mental illness in the same pool too. That is unfair. Jen xx
anxietyadventures
/ December 19, 2012Exactly – it makes it harder for the rest of us to speak up about having mental illnesses.
Anonymous
/ December 19, 2012This really bothers me. AGAIN they are reflecting the blame and if they do this, tragedies and horrors like Newtown will keep happening. MAN UP and attack the problem. Evil got hold of this young man because he was neglected and left in the care of someone who loved him very much but didn’t have the skills and knowledge to even protect herself.
Lunch Sketch
/ December 20, 2012Could not agree more! Really bugged me when I saw some gun toting guy on the news the other night saying, “It’s not guns we need to worry about in this country, it is mental illness”.
The linking of such tragedies to the need for gun control is logical. But linking these tragedies on some ill-informed and ignorant understanding of “mental illness” is offensive.