The Mislead Stigmatism of Mental Illness

I became infuriated while interlingual rendition a quote from Payne County z ane Attorney Rob Hudson. Hudson referred to a suspect who had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic sevener years before he allegedly shot an okay State University student from Enid on June 25, 1996. According to a spirit level in the Sept. 24, 1997 Tulsa World, Hudson said, `You cant even go down the street or ride a roulette wheel without, in the back of your headspring thinking, I hope some jack doesnt drive by with a gun.` Since October is National Mental health Awareness Month, I olfactory modality it is my duty to make a conscious effort to finish off Mr. Hudson and pack who are analogous him. Please dont get me wrong. I grieve for the victims, including the student, Dean Rogers, who was solo 24 when he was killed. I grieve for his biking companion who was paralyzed immediately after a bullet pierced both of his lungs. But what Hudson apparently doesnt cognize is that we are all c orrection to the onslaught of cordial nausea.\nAttorneys, psychiatrists, doctors and virtually anyone could develop schizophrenia or bipolar phrenetic depression. It could be you. It doesnt adjudge to be genetic. It is kindred cancer, a heart glide path or AIDS. Mental illness does not discriminate. There are, of course, people who are more suggestible to it. I dont believe the ` merry andrew` was part of a cluster who deliberately killed someone as part of an initiation. He was a person who had no project over his actions at the conviction of the shooting. The `goofball` probably didnt have access to medical wish or a family or friends to care for him. At one point, I shared Hudsons ignorance concerning mental illness. That changed for me when someone I was constrictive to fell prey to this all-too-common problem. I drove this victim to a psychiatric hospital where he voluntarily was admitted. Diagnosed with bipolar manic depression, two weeks later he left the hospita l. It was two months though before he matte normal. There was no tinge of this...