I suppose that people can do all the theorizing they wish. It seems to me
that I've been angry for most of my life. But these people who kill, do so
because of delusions, stuff in their heads. That guy in Oregon asked each
person their religion and if they said they were Christians, he killed them.
Anger management?
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alice Dampman
Humel
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:39 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: my own thoughts on mental illness and guns
I read an article somewhere that contended that the biggest problem is what
the author called "anger management," or plain uncontrolled anger, how anger
takes over rational thought processes, and that our society is basically
full of anger and full of a lot of really angry people.
He differentiated between anger and mental illness...
On Oct 8, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From my professional and personal experience, I would like to point
out that
if a member of your family is an adult and is clearly mentally ill,
even if
there are an array of available treatment services, it may be
difficult or
impossible to help that individual go for treatment. All of this
emphasis on
improving mental health services doesn't solve the problem. There's
no legal
or practical way of forcing an adult to accept or utilize
psychiatric
treatment. That is a tragedy with which many families live. It is
probably
the reason for the reports about all of those killers whom people
described,
in retrospect, as troubled, loners, obviously mentetally ill, etc.
People
may have known that there was something terribly wrong, but they
were
powerless to do anything. The only thing that can be done is to make
guns as
unavailable as possible.
Miriam