Stop Blaming Mental Illness!!!

Yes, i just wish people could spread more love than hate. Watching the media all i am constantly reminded of is how much people hate each other and fear each other..... it's sad.

@chrissbergstrom That would be my wish. That we have peace on earth and love out neighbors as ourselves..

That's my thoughts on it too. Mentally ill doesn't mean having a specific disorder it could mean having your mind warped at a young age. No sane person would shoot up anyone. I feel like there are different types of mental illness and a lot of these mentally disturbed people know exactly what they're doing so, in my opinion, it doesn't count for an insanity plea. For me, an insanity plea would mean a person with a known or soon diagnosed mental disorder that snapped not someone who had their brains warped at a young age and knew what they were doing or had planned it out. You can be mentally ill and also aware of exactly what you're doing. I'm not talking about a mentally ill person who has lost their sense of reality which to me is what it would take to get an insanity plea. I feel like if you have a healthy mind you wouldn't want to kill anyone. There's something there that has been messed up along the way.

@sissy15 This makes total sense.

EXACTLY 100% Agreed i suffer from severe depression and anxiety everyday i love horror movies and video games yet never had the urge to shoot up a place, it makes me sick people suffering from mental illness are being lumped in with these psychopaths murdering do the indoctrined hatred they have developed from media and how they were raised.......

@Ghosthere2 I don't think so either; but that's what they're making it look like.

Humm, I am struggling with this one. There are many people with mental illnesses who are not violent and are in therapy. I don't think those are the ones that are typically responsible for mass shootings.

To busy playing the blame game

@chrissbergstrom exactly they need to open their eyes

@chrissbergstrom Not every massacre has been premediated a lot/most of them have been but not all of them. I don't agree with a psych defense unless the person truly did snap. Look at Charles Manson that man was crazy and messed with his followers minds to get them to his way of thinking. He was nuts and I don't even think he actually killed anyone but he got life in prison regardless of how insane he was. To me, there are different levels of insanity and not all of them are a specific mental disorder. I'm just saying no one with a healthy mind is going to commit murder but do I think they should get a psych defense? No. When I think psych defense I think someone who is actually diagnosed with something and does it in a spur of the moment not someone who maps it out but even those who are mentally ill can and have mapped out murders. The guy who did the Sandy Hook massacre actually had a form of autism and I want to say some other things wrong with him and while autism isn't exactly a mental illness it is a disorder and most autistic people don't have it in them to go out and massacre a bunch of first graders. To this day that is the mass shooting incident that haunts me most. The guy who killed people in Dayton didn't plan it out beforehand but he did have a thing for violence and at one time made a kill/rape list but that had nothing to do with the murder they still don't know his motive at least the last time I looked. He had issues I mean he killed his own sister. If he had not been killed I don't think he should have gotten the insanity plea. There are messed up people in the world and what I'm saying is that they aren't sane but they definitely shouldn't get a pass for it and most often don't. I am saying that had some of these murderers been diagnosed and treated before they got to this point maybe they wouldn't have. When you look back at these murderers and their pasts sometimes there is a link and had they gotten help at any point before they reached the point of no return and been treated for something maybe they wouldn't do what they did. No sane person shoots up others. A lot of murderers but not all come from a home where they were abused and had they gotten therapy and worked through their issues they may not have gotten to this point. What happens in your early childhood is often critical to how someone turns out. When we think mental illness we are talking about people who could have had help before they got to this point. We are talking about children who should have had therapy but didn't get it. I'm saying therapy needs to be taken seriously before a lot of people get to this point I'm not saying I think they should get the psych defense. A person with a healthy mind wouldn't have such sick thoughts. I'm talking about mental health as a whole not saying everyone who has a mental disorder is going to be crazy or think they should get a free pass. I am saying maybe if more people had access to therapy earlier in their lives it might make a small difference.