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So you fell for a slogan.
No. The smart ones live in those places and come at these issues with a self assured arrogance combined with ignorance of how most of the country lives. The others, well I didn’t stutter.
Roughyl 43M Americans take SSRIs or related meds. You’re gonna need a lot more asylums.
Spitballing here: Maybe we could incorporate the asylums into the design of The Wall?
You blame the left for what has happened to mental health care in this nation? You might want to look at Trump’s budget proposal when it comes to mental health. As far as the three day confinement: the Constitution and all that, you know, the same thing that protects your right to own a firearm.
(I REALLY am not “trolling” you, Gainz…just not my style…but you keep posting stuff like this and I have to reply…)
Asylums were Cesspools of mismanagement and fraud on epic scales; neglect, abuse rape and even Murder…Some of the most vulnerable in our society were warehoused and became no more than caged deer surrounded by Wolves…
THAT’S why they were closed.
If that’s “Lefty Talk”…then so be it.
I never suggested bringing them back. The problem is we can’t deal with our population of mentally unstable people. We seem to be producing too many of them. Part of that is a broken society.
And 43 Million people on anti depression meds? So 13% of the population. What is the growth rate on the diagnosis of depression? Maybe we need to tell some people who can’t deal with their feelings to suck it up and not give every 8th person drugs that mess with brain chemistry.
(I give up…)
You have friends who you find to be evil, ignorant and stupid? What does that say about you?
It’s one of the side effects of capitalism.
There may also be a domestic violence link.
So you’re not suggesting the answer to gun massacres is to proactively and indefinitely lock up ‘crazy people.’ Glad to hear it (sincerely said).
Or perhaps all this depression is a function of the "broken society’ you mentioned in your previous paragraph, and thus legitimate (a possibility you seem to be dismissing).
While there are good arguments for how to deal with depression without medication, telling people to suck it up is not one of them.
That doesn’t mean that proper management and treatment couldn’t be instituted. There are people who need inpatient care and it’s frankly unavailable unless you’re rich enough to afford some expensive “retreat.”
Reading comp is not your strong suit
By nearly every single measure our society is the most affluent and decadent to ever exist. Our poor are dying because they’re too fat. The poorest among us have shelter, food, water, hvac and entertainment and money left over for illicit drugs and alcohol. WTF is everyone so depressed about?
We have higher rates of depression and suicide now than in the Great Depression.
The problem is we aren’t raising well adjusted humans. How do we put that toothpaste back in the tube?
I might be wrong but as I understand one of the biggest achievements of pharmaceutical approach to handling psychological issues is that people with mental health issues aren’t locked up in asylums and are functioning in society?
Also, it seems you “only” need to lock up 1% of the population
In a Swedish sample, the most violent 1% of the population committed 63% of all violent crimes (N = 2,393,765) —nearly twice as many as the other 99% combined.5 It has also been shown that the subset of the population with the greatest propensity to criminality, those known as “life-course persistent offenders,” are much more likely than the general population to commit rape or engage in sexual coercion.6 The researchers who have investigated this go on to suggest the tendency of this small minority of men to commit such acts may be caused by the genetics of those specific men, not by a “rape culture” that teaches men in general that violence against women is acceptable.
I think not. Unless you are saying it’s all liberals except for those who are your friends.
Are the poorest committing these mass shootings?
If the poorest are able to secure the necessities of life, it would follow that everyone above them can also secure them. If we have it easier than most humans who’ve ever lived… Why are so many of us sad?
Increased exposure and access to things that would make us sad?
Maybe for the poor those things are enough.