Mental Health Support

HereSince1628

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12. Many of the posters talking down mental illness in GD are scared and unaware

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 08:32 PM

Dec 2012

Fear is a power motivator of conservative thinking. The mass murder presents them with existential fear that they've got to reduce if they are to find peace of mind. They'll swallow any idea that does that. If they don't already have a favorite agenda to link to, the dangers of the mentally ill is as handy as any other.

Maybe I missed something or maybe I wanted to miss it, but it seems to me that today the blaming all or unspecified mental illness is less common. I think yours and others' posts did have some good effect.

I'm more concerned about 'US' and how we are coping.

And I just keep repeating...

It's about THEIR fear.
Their fear isn't based in reality.
This about their phantoms,
and not about "ME", at all.

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I'm staying out of the school shooting threads. [View all] hunter Dec 2012 OP

Yeah, I can relate. Denninmi Dec 2012 #1

It's hard libodem Dec 2012 #2

Grammar looks right. Denninmi Dec 2012 #3

I haven't been watching the news haikugal Dec 2012 #4

i can't really watch it either. mopinko Dec 2012 #5

I know the feeling.. Terra Alta Dec 2012 #6

I don't think people realize that mentally ill does not always mean Jamastiene Dec 2012 #7

I was surprised how many people on the GD threads called bullshit on this. Denninmi Dec 2012 #8

Yeah, without meds or support I'm just a harmless homeless guy... hunter Dec 2012 #10

I have never been a violent person Terra Alta Dec 2012 #11

I think I have to agree at this point. Denninmi Dec 2012 #9

Many of the posters talking down mental illness in GD are scared and unaware HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #12