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Originally Posted by Neenagirl
I have been getting really angry lately when I hear people or the media casually throwing out the term mentally ill or using the same term to call someone who MUST be mentally ill or...
Specifically the Las Vegas shooter - he must be mentally ill to have shot all those people. Hmm, maybe or maybe not. He was definitely evil, no doubt about that, but we don't know anything about his mental health.
Does anyone else feel this way or get angry when people - whether or not they know you and your mental health, say that so and so must be crazy??
Maybe I am taking it all too personally?
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it contributes to stigma and how people see mentally ill people.
when ever their's a shooting or something like that, it's the first thing to come out on the news.. that person was mentally ill
makes us all come across as criminals, when the truth is that quite a lot of us have never done something of that nature.