Mental illness isn't the cause of mass shootings, let's just make that clear

[davidthegnome]

35. More than sort of disgusting.

It seems that a number of people here have precious little understanding of what mental illness actually is. Depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder... all of these can be classified as mental illness as can very mild forms of all of them. As someone with PTSD, I consider myself mentally ill - but there is a huge difference between being mentally ill and being crazy and/or crazy and violent.

Should I be a scapegoat? I've struggled with depression and panic attacks for most of my life, would these 100% sane, rational, entirely and completely logical and perfectly normal individuals care to undergo psychological analysis themselves I wonder?

No, it's more than sort of disgusting. It's absolutely despicable and I can't believe some of the stuff I'm reading here. I AM MENTALLY ILL. I am also a decent human being, just like most who are. We are no more likely to be violent than anyone else - a good deal LESS likely than some.