Clinton issues call to action on guns after Va. slayings

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34. What constitutes mental illness? The APA rejected Embitterment as an illness.

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And even if there were a diagnosis which dealt with disgruntled employees that 'go Postal', most Americans don't seek treatment for mental illness unless it is a disorder that significantly disrupts their daily activities.

People who go postal are generally pretty high functioning...until they go postal.

If we had universal health care that included mental health, and if Americans didn't avoid mental health care-because a mental illness label REALLY can ruin a persons life-we might actually move toward a system where an employer and their HR could help an employee get to treatment.

As it is 80% of persons with mental illness in the US do not seek help.

So, psychology has short-comings, healthcare funding has short-comings, and Americans come up short in help seeking for mental disorders

YET, pretty much everyone desires to make a mass-killer look 'not like me', including people with mental disorders and people who advocate for the mentally disordered.

America has a -cultural- problem with violence. IMO, it is absolutely no accident that the nation with the greatest problem with gun deaths is also the nation whose police shoot the most citizens and the nation with the largest military in the world.

These things are not independent.

They all are rooted in the way Americans learn to deal with adversity at a personal, social, and international levels. THAT is not a gun problem. THAT is not a mental illness problem.

THAT is a problem with the way Americans ARE.