I have had it!

I swear this is wrong saying that Bowe Bergdahl has a mental illness is what is making those with mental illnesses look bad! Everytime something goes wrong in with the media it's a mental illness and I can't take it no more! There are most of us who function like normal individuals who represent our society like the most behaved individuals out there. What is the problem with the government blaming everything on mental illness! It's not always the way to go when we think that our lives our at stake, what do we do next... just wait for the next assign to propose some kind of warfare on our country? Thanks for listening....those who are willing to answer assume the role...amen!
~Amber

I think the reason that they blame mental health issues is because most people cannot fathom how someone "in their right mind" could do such a thing. That leaves only one conclusion: They must have a mental health issue.

Cheze2 wrote:I think the reason that they blame mental health issues is because most people cannot fathom how someone "in their right mind" could do such a thing. That leaves only one conclusion: They must have a mental health issue.

So sad...because a lot of us are very good, normal people, we just have a medical issue that occurs sometimes. I am sick of it! My sister is military and she is sick of it too! She always tells me about these things going on because I don't watch tv and she always says "their blaming mental illness now."...It's sick! It's an easy way out...and makes us look bad too!
~Amber

Yeah it definitely doesn't help the stigma that we already get.

I'm definitely getting sick of it too. It seems like every time there's a shooting or something that happens in the news, they just blame mental illness for it.
In reality, people with mental illnesses are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators.