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Originally Posted by LaborIntensive
Society is sick in general. It makes no difference to me personally when they portray people as "having suffered depression and PTSD." They seem to say that for everyone on the news committing murder. What they NEED to do is cover these issues and actual perform the long lost art of "investigative journalism" to uncover truths and aid in the process of helping those who need it.
I wish they would also cover suicide more to draw attention to the skyrocketing numbers but of course the job of the news it seems is a mouthpiece for politics and to tell you over and over how wonderful it is to be thin, happy and in a family with a garden while you soak up the stories of movie stars and talk about them at work and with friends.
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How true. The numbers of suicides in the military has sky rocketed. I am sure the VA would rather ignore it and hope it goes away.
The prison system is a joke. There is no such thing as rehabilitation. Most of the prison population has drug and alcohol or mental illness related issues. They just make career criminals out of them.
What is going to be interesting is that they are doing many more brain studies on muderers and rapist and child molesters and gang members and so on, and are discovering major abnormalities in their brains.
Of course defense lawyers are going to jump all over this and say well it wasn't his fault he murdered that guy his brain is abnormal. It will be an interesting debate.
I don't think my depression is my fault but I am still responsible for my actions. There is a big difference between fault and blame and responsibility. I am not to blame for having an addictive personality and being an alcoholic, it is a disease. I am however responsible for my recovery.