amireal2u:

monanotlisa:

lierdumoa:

soulsoaker:

this might be a bit of a reach but in the wake of so-called “progressives” advocating for creating a list of mentally ill people and handing it over to the cops, on top of things like forced institutionalization and universities expelling students who they deem too crazy to function, I do not want to hear ANY of you people whining about why we don’t just see a doctor and Start Recovering.

Just either admit you have no fucking clue how dangerous it can be to live at the mercy of incompetent bureaucracies that convinced themselves they can do no harm, or that you’re just annoyed that mentally ill people write things where you can see them. Fuck off

We won’t solve gun violence until we admit that gun violence is motivated by bigotry, not mental illness. 

Y’all, the Parkland kids are KIDS. They are traumatized. They understand violence…but they are not psychiatrists or lawyers. They clearly do not understand that laws ALREADY allow mental health providers to notify the authorities.

I would like to see US-Americans be less aggressive with others way down in the hierarchy of power, and be more aggressive with those higher up. 

That said: The Parkland kids’ narrative about mental illness is wrong. 

Had a therapist asked kid!me, I certainly would have had a violent fantasy or ten to share about the dudes at school who hounded me relentlessly. But, and that’s the thing, I posed no danger to them or myself – and not just because where I come from, guns are regulated. 

As @lierdumoa says, gun violence is motivated by bigotry. Having empathy only for whom you perceive are your peers is not a mental illness: If this joke of a President and his horseman-of-the-apocalypse Vice-President feel only for themselves and a narrow band of fellow White men, it doesn’t mean they need therapy. They need to be removed from power so their anti-social decisions do not hurt the community, the people.

There is a difference between mental illness and being told or some other way coming to the conclusion because of the rhetoric surrounding you, that you deserve everything you want and as a byproduct have never learned how to handle negative emotions, situations or even just the word “no”.

Please leave the mentally ill outnof this. Trust me, the violent ones are not just a minority but relatively easy for pros to identify.