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Fridays horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of mental health services, overt and covert wars abroad, religion, politics and the way we raise our children. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says its easy to talk about guns. But its time to talk about mental illness.
I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.
To be fair to katz, I'm pretty sure that it's commonplace in Germany and other countries to do that very thing.
The mentally ill should be removed and placed somewhere where they cannot harm others. This mother wants someone to step in and fix her son. He can't be fixed. He can't be understood or accommodated. He has to be removed and kept somewhere safe.
'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother': A Mom's Perspective On The Mental Illness Conversation In America
Fridays horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of mental health services, overt and covert wars abroad, religion, politics and the way we raise our children. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says its easy to talk about guns. But its time to talk about mental illness.
I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.
The way we treat our mentally ill, we may as well still be back in the Dark Ages.
'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother': A Mom's Perspective On The Mental Illness Conversation In America
Fridays horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of mental health services, overt and covert wars abroad, religion, politics and the way we raise our children. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says its easy to talk about guns. But its time to talk about mental illness.
I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.
The way we treat our mentally ill, we may as well still be back in the Dark Ages.
If this shooting teaches us anything, I hope it to finally opens our eyes to how poorly we treat mental illness.
If you're an adult, there is almost no help out there for you. I know mothers who have given up their rights to their teenagers, in hopes of getting their children help from the state, and I know adults who have reached out for help and been brushed off.
To be fair to katz, I'm pretty sure that it's commonplace in Germany and other countries to do that very thing.
do what thing?
If this shooting teaches us anything, I hope it to finally opens our eyes to how poorly we treat mental illness.
If you're an adult, there is almost no help out there for you. I know mothers who have given up their rights to their teenagers, in hopes of getting their children help from the state, and I know adults who have reached out for help and been brushed off.
Luddie's example was a prime example of a mentally ill child, one that is and has been 'treated.' Both at school and in hospitals. He's on meds. What I'm seeing is that the mother knows that one day soon, he'll do something that requires jail. Why isn't there the institutions that used to remove the 'threats' to society, using sedation when called for?
Oh yes, I studied the horror stories and far too many were certainly true. Just the other day scores of skeletons were found on the property of one such in FL.
However rather than reforming, they were shut down. They would go to 'group homes' or 'half-way houses' and their 'home parents' could distribute meds and all would be well. Didn't work out that way. Responsible parents have no where safe to put these kids. Until they do something to end up in prison, often charged as an adult.
She was a big gun nut.
that was where she went wrong
