Why is nobody addressing the mental health problem in America?

[Tjw78]

This may be relevant in other countries as well... But in the past few decades, mass shootings, suicide, overdoses, murder, hate crimes, etcetera. Have all been increasing drastically in frequency and severity. The attention is all getting placed on gun control, when it should be placed on mental health and parenting. Why are so many more violent people being born now than before? In my opinion people that are capable of these acts have lost their humanity. I think we should be fighting against mental health and irresponsible parents, not guns.

[KostasKouvalis]

Because mentally ill people are a protected species. You can't criticize them or you will be labeled a bigot. They give them special treatment. I saw this at my own schools. These kids would punch security guards, throw rocks at teachers and students, and stab people, and no one punished them.
One bully brought his mother to summer school and she just sat there and smirked while her son laughed at people's names.

I don't understand why if you are sane and do something wrong you get punished, but if you are mentally ill they let you get away with it. Crime is crime, and if you are a threat to the public you should be locked away. But American people are too sensative and olitically correct. In other countries, they lock mentally ill people away from society, and no one feels sorry for them, but here they will say you are violating their human rights. But in other countries they do not have these kinds of problems.

My favorite had to be the Samoan gangster who said, "In the islands, we solve our problems with our fists. These gangsters in America, they don't wanna fist fight, they just wanna shoot you, so we had to buy guns too."

He summed it up beautifully. American people feel they need guns to protect themselves, because other American people feel they need to shoot people in order to be respected.

[ADFSDF1996]

And many of those countries are known for being dystopian countries run by authoritarian governments that don’t respect their citizens’ rights and liberties.

American psych wards don’t actually treat the mentally ill patients with respect but at least they don’t go Joseph Mengele on them anymore. If the mentally ill where actually treated with respect then a lot of problems would be solved.

[KostasKouvalis]

@ADFSDF1996 Actually, quite a lot of these are Asian and Western European countries. They respect human rights, just not of the mentally ill.

It's kind of hard to treat them with respect if they are violent. I still think mentally Ill people have more rights, and are less stigmatized than in other countries.
And maybe euthanizing them is too much, but I certainly don't think these people should be roaming the streets amongst regular people. They don't understand us and we don't understand them. We're a danger to eachother. They need to be in their own communities, with professionals who understand them.

[ADFSDF1996]

Western European countries like Norway, Germany and Switzerland actually treat the mentally ill respect. Not England though, England is a dystopian nightmare that is starting to look like Orwell’s 1984.

Most East Asian countries treat the mentally ill like livestock. Only Japan, South Korea and Taiwan somewhat have respect for the mentally ill.

[ADFSDF1996]

The problem is that the mentally ill are
shunned groups of people who’s conditions are stigmatized by society. There is so much misinformation promoted in regards to mental health, there are even shrinks who are so incompetent at their jobs that they make things worse for the mentally ill.

A lot of mentally ill people keep their conditions private because they can’t trust our shitty mental health system that exploits the mentally ill for cash while also treating the mentally ill like Guinea pigs. Not to mention that the mentally ill’s rights are constantly infringed upon.

[ADFSDF1996]

Thanks for most helpful opinion

[Crepe_tart]

I think that one thing that became the reason why this is ocurring on a high level is the pandemic and quarantine.

[Tjw78]

It was an issue long before the pandemic though. I do agree things have gotten worse since it started, but that may be due to them having more time to sulk in their thoughts.

[Dargil]

Partly because that "industry" is mostly a Leftist scam. They do not want to fix anything, They just want fees and government dole.

[Dargil]

Psychology is predominantly a pseudo-scientific "discipline" like sociology.

[Tjw78]

There are more deaths caused by cars than guns. By political logic there should be a war against cars. All they do is create problems by blaming inanimate objects rather than the society they created.

[jahaims]

No real issues are seriously addressed in this country. Politicians are controlled by anyone willing to throw money at them. Groups like big pharma benefit from our current system so they will do everything they can to keep it that way.

[Curmudgeon]

Because certain subversive and frankly treasonous elements have a stake in it: The Gender Benders, the Groomers, the Critical Race Baiters, the criminal coddlers.

[Anonymous]

Because we don’t care about a lot of things in this country besides our guns, our beliefs (religion) and our fake patriotism (what the media sells on what they want patriotism to look like. Soooo, mental health, making sure families have the bare minimum to live, making sure service members and soldiers never go homeless or hungry, etc… that’s not on anyones radar here in this country

[ODC2112]

The US is a country where there is not even public health care, I don't understand why anyone should care about public mental health. If people were sane they would stop buying useless things first. This would create an economic collapse.

[Tjw78]

If that happened, what would happen to the people that make those useless things? 😂

[Tjw78]

I think if that happened, Darwinism would kick in.

[Anonymous]

Because politicians have no desire or interest to fix any problems. They only want to use them as a wedge issue to gin up support from voters to get re-elected and keep their jobs. It’s all a fucking joke.

[Tjw78]

Agreed

[DryGermanGuy]

Stupid, childish babble. Do their job, if you think you will be so much better.

[Tjw78]

Honest politicians don't stand much of a chance here. They are immediately bombarded with scandals and without corporate financial support it isn't possible to fund a successful campaign. Anyone with morales and a little knowledge can do a better job than our politicians.

[Opinion Owner]

@DryGermanGuy Oh. A Deutschlander chiming in on American politics because he has nothing going on in his own sad little life.

You act as if politicians are good people. They aren’t. They just have more money than the rest of us.

No go fuck yourself you Nazi loving scum.

[DryGermanGuy]

YAAAAAAAWN.

[jshm2]

Then you are all for euthanising Americans, as you're all fucking crazy and culpable.

[Tjw78]

What are you talking about?

[Fromdusktilldawn]

The media and shallow general public prefer cursing the gun lobby