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Originally Posted by Dion
I have ben dealing with mental health issues all of my life and have yet to kill anyone. Mental Illness is an easy scape goat for individuals like yourself and dino7 when all the facts have not been reported. The negitive stigma you and others put on mental illness is the reason many don't reach out for help.
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I'm not putting any stigma onto anything, you really are just taking a victim mentality when it is erroneous. Just because you have mental health issues does not mean everyone else is the same.
If someone is killing people they are not mentally well, the eagerness to use the words scapegoat and stigma are tired rhetorical methods. I've got a degree in psychology, nowhere in any of my learning did I learn about healthy minds going on killing sprees. The two are mutually exclusive because the act of killing someone is psychopathic showing lack of empathy, having such a lack of empathy that one could go on a killing spree is indicative of mental health issues. And if you were truly educated on the matter you would know that it works on a spectrum, even if you had the exact same described illness as the young man in this situation it does not mean you are going to do the same thing as you are not an extreme case and reside in a functional state of mind.
Looking at a situation through the lens of critical thinking does not make it a stigmatization, it is in fact the opposite because a better cultural understanding of the situation makes it possible to assess if its preventable in the future. Awareness is not stigmatization, condemnation and judgement are and nobody's doing that here.