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It’s Long Past Time for National Discussion About Mental Illness
epoch times ^ | 8/8/2019 | BRIAN CATES

Posted on 08/08/2019 10:56:18 AM PDT by bitt

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To: bitt

Let’s start with the Democrats mental health!


21 posted on 08/08/2019 11:16:11 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: bitt

Implementing #3 removes the need for #4.


22 posted on 08/08/2019 11:16:24 AM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: bitt

We do have high rates of mental illness, and the billions of pills swallowed over the last 30 years haven’t reduced those rates.

The culture is sick, but we can’t talk about social issues. That’s been off the table since the 1992 Republican Convention.


23 posted on 08/08/2019 11:17:25 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Fact: Dogs can extract more info from smelling a pile of $h!t than humans can from viewing CNN)
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To: bitt

Both Mario, and Andrew Cuomo closed psychiatric centers in NY State, and tossed the residents into the community. Prison population exploded in the State, and a large number of inmates came into the system with mental health issues. I know, because I worked as an officer in NYDOCS for 25 years, and had to deal with them.


24 posted on 08/08/2019 11:19:00 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: bitt

There IS no “national discussion” when only one side owns all the platforms by which such a discussion can be carried out.


25 posted on 08/08/2019 11:24:18 AM PDT by papertyger (Trump, A president so great, that Democrats who said they would leave America if he won, stayed!)
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To: bitt

There are a lot of people who demand that some challenged children are included in classrooms, sports, competitions, etc.

To some extent that’s OK. But as adults who are still challenged and possibly alienated... there is a time to call a thing by its right name.

We’re cultivating an element that cannot cope. We are enabling adults who are NOT responsible for themselves... not in their relationships, their work, their property (including guns) and you have to make some decisions from the start, to address this likelihood.

Liberals have always fought this. Now, it’s coming home to roost. Never mind that media violence and the criminally dummied-down education in the US has contributed greatly to the problem.

THIS is the perfect storm


26 posted on 08/08/2019 11:26:29 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: bitt

Mental illness is certainly part of the problem but we also have a problem with young men of all races who need proper raising to know how to be a man and not a problem to society.

The government, education, workforce, military, and media have become female centered. It’s not a bad thing to give women opportunity for a future, a young woman without good opportunities is a sad thing, but a young man without good opportunities is a dangerous thing. They tend to drag women down with them as well.

I think we need to concentrate on our young men for awhile.


27 posted on 08/08/2019 11:26:56 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
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To: bitt
I'll do my part. Will you?

28 posted on 08/08/2019 11:27:25 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: bitt

Discuss this. Just open all the bughouses again.


29 posted on 08/08/2019 11:29:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bitt

We need to do away with the euphemism of “mental illness” and recognize the large majority for what it is, permanent brain damage due to the abuse of illegal drugs. They need to be permanently locked up in high security insane asylums and the key thrown away.

Right now we have thousands of dangerous raving lunatics wandering our streets and nobody can do anything about them until they kill or seriously injure someone.


30 posted on 08/08/2019 11:29:58 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: MichaelCorleone

Amen .

Problem is the ACLU would fight back.


31 posted on 08/08/2019 11:31:33 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: bitt

Going after video games again. Pitiful.


32 posted on 08/08/2019 11:32:13 AM PDT by Monty22002
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To: bitt

Lock up all the demon rats.

They are all bat $hit crazy and then some.


33 posted on 08/08/2019 11:38:58 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: bitt

MSM proggies talking about mental health?

Will their panels include transexuals, pyromaniacs, multiple personality folk, bipolars, nymphomaniacs, schizophrenics, furries, kleptomaniacs and the depressed? They’ll provide the MSM baseline for ‘normal’ in their ‘discussions’.


34 posted on 08/08/2019 11:40:27 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: ryderann
This is the ruling that destroyed our mental health system and shut down the states’ psychiatric hospitals. It must be overturned if we’re to stop these horrible mass killings.

That happened way before that 1999 decision.

35 posted on 08/08/2019 11:41:01 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: DoughtyOne
Everyone does know who is going to be declared mentally ill, right?

Da, tovarishch … anyone who opposes socialism or rejects The Party is obviously insane.

36 posted on 08/08/2019 11:42:17 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SERKIT

Oh, that’s gooooood!


37 posted on 08/08/2019 11:46:58 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: bitt

APA is mainlining deviant behavior I doubt they would allow mental discussion free from distorting facts.


38 posted on 08/08/2019 11:47:20 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: Biggirl

I know, but that will never end until we fight back. We have right on our side.

The aclu should be called out in public for their hypocrisy and, frankly, for their communist ways.

I know one thing - most of these organizations thrive because they never get challenged. That is a mistake we must rectify if we can ever win the culture war.


39 posted on 08/08/2019 11:57:02 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks bitt.

40 posted on 08/08/2019 12:03:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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