People suffering from severe depression should be banned from purchasing/carrying guns

[Heddi]

197. One would think that all your Nursing School training would educated you on mental illness

which would have hopefully given you insight into mental illnesses, which would have (hopefully) taught you to have empathy for people with mental illnesses.

But that didn't happen.

Up above, in post 175, you state:

"A lot of depressed people become not only suicidal but psychotic and homicidal.

Read a bit more about it."

But that isn't true at all. You are the one that needs to "read more about it"

Of course, this wouldn't be the first time that you've said things that no self-respecting Nursing Student (or RN for that matter) would ever state or imply.

The things you've written here are based on ignorance and bigotry towards the mentally ill.

And I'm sure you're aware that "depression" isn't a permanent state of mind. It's also not one that can be easily considered "cured." Many people who are diagnosed with depression have times when their depression is very disruptive to life, and times when its not. There are people for whom medication works well, and others who have no change with medication.

So once someone is labeled "mentally ill" or "depressed," what kind of hoops do they have to go through to prove that they are no longer depressed? THere's no blood tests, no paper tests, no xrays that can be done.

Are they marked for life?

What about situational depression from the death of a loved one or loss of a job.

You're suggesting things that will further stigmatize mental illness, and decrease the chances that people get the help they need.

You mention that EMR's will be the answer. What if a dr just flippantly states I have a depressed mood. Is that "depression?" How will patients ever have a chance to know whether they've been labeled fairly or unfairly? Will there be a process to clear their name?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/DepressionOverview/relationship-depression-violence/story?id=4360759
Question: What is the relationship between depression and violence?

Answer: The relationship between depression and violence is relatively poorly studied. But the major fact of the matter is that depressed patients by and large are not at risk for violence. Most psychiatric patients who commit violence are patients who are psychotic and only a small number of depressed patients are psychotic.

https://www.mdguidelines.com/depressive-psychosis
Incidence and Prevalence:Approximately 10% to 25% of women and 5% to 12% of men are at a lifetime risk for developing a major depressive disorder, with only a small percentage of those exhibiting psychotic features.

http://www.cmha.ca/mental_health/violence-and-mental-illness/#.Uz3aia1dXUU

As a group, people with mental health issues are not more violent than any other group in our society. The majority of crimes are not committed by people with psychiatric illness, and multiple studies have proven that there is very little relationship between most of these diseases and violence. The real issue is the fact that people with mental illness are two and a half to four times more likely to be the victims of violence than any other group in our society.


But you already knew all this already....