02-05-2013, 05:36 PM
I find it interesting that so many of you are willing to blame the medication, just like anti-gun people are willing to blame the gun!
The reason he was on the medication is BECAUSE he had a serious mental illness. Blaming the medication for acting out is EXACTLY akin to blaming a gun for shooting.
How many of you have spent any time at a mental health facility where people refuse their medications? How many of you have spent any time at a prison, where 50% of the people incarcerated have some type of mental illness and were NOT taking any medication when they commintted their criminal acts? I'm at a juvenile detention facility weekly. 60-70% of these kids are victims of documented abuse and have PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, or BiPolar disease. NOT A SINGLE ONE WAS ON TREATMENT MEDICATION WHEN THEY COMMITTED THEIR FELONIES! NOT ONE!
Its a sad day when supposedly educated people refuse to acknowledge that double blind studies, the only way a medication can be tested scientifically, are valid.
These arguments against medication are EXACTLY the same arguments that anti-gunners use against guns! How can you not see the illogical progression you are following? As I have stated before, CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION!
Our mental health system sucks, but it isn't because of the medication, guys! Its because we have far too few providers for the number of people needing help! That's why a Navy Seal and his buddy were trying to help out a Marine diagnosed with mental illness, because there simply weren't enough conventional resources to help. I seriously doubt that Chris Kyle or Chad Littlefield had ANY training in dealing with an individual with severe PTSD, and yet, being the good guys they were, they tried.
But blaming the medication he was taking is akin to blaming the rifle he used.
The reason he was on the medication is BECAUSE he had a serious mental illness. Blaming the medication for acting out is EXACTLY akin to blaming a gun for shooting.
How many of you have spent any time at a mental health facility where people refuse their medications? How many of you have spent any time at a prison, where 50% of the people incarcerated have some type of mental illness and were NOT taking any medication when they commintted their criminal acts? I'm at a juvenile detention facility weekly. 60-70% of these kids are victims of documented abuse and have PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, or BiPolar disease. NOT A SINGLE ONE WAS ON TREATMENT MEDICATION WHEN THEY COMMITTED THEIR FELONIES! NOT ONE!
Its a sad day when supposedly educated people refuse to acknowledge that double blind studies, the only way a medication can be tested scientifically, are valid.
These arguments against medication are EXACTLY the same arguments that anti-gunners use against guns! How can you not see the illogical progression you are following? As I have stated before, CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION!
Our mental health system sucks, but it isn't because of the medication, guys! Its because we have far too few providers for the number of people needing help! That's why a Navy Seal and his buddy were trying to help out a Marine diagnosed with mental illness, because there simply weren't enough conventional resources to help. I seriously doubt that Chris Kyle or Chad Littlefield had ANY training in dealing with an individual with severe PTSD, and yet, being the good guys they were, they tried.
But blaming the medication he was taking is akin to blaming the rifle he used.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt