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In reply to the discussion: 'I'm planning a (heinous) act that will be remembered forever'... [View all]mopinko
(73,505 posts)insensitive, and that you are wrong, you wont change your mind.
so, maybe it is time you listened enough to just drop it.
this is not idle conversation. this is real people with real lives and real reasons that their privacy should be respected. real members here.
how about this, we just make mental health care more available, and more effective, and just leave everyone's private life private.
there is much that could be done to make mental health care more effective. it is starting to happen with brain researchers and neurologists who are tearing down the wall that has separated them for too long.
and there actually are quite a few treatable roots of "mental illness", but they are rarely explored. like sleep problems.
for all we know this guys problem was actually a brain tumor that was affecting his "mental" wherever that may be in the anatomy. there have been a couple shooters who had this problem. neuro-pyche testing should be the norm for people this distressed.
then what is next? all diabetics have to report themselves, because they might blank out at the wheel of the bus? how about epileptics? (they are required to prove themselves seizure from for many things already. but my daughter was just fired when her boss found out that she has it. she was endangering exactly no one.) how about menstruating women? how much pms can you have until you start making mistakes?
you dont seem to have much of a clue as the the volume of this can of worms you insist must be opened.
perhaps you should try listening.