... of mentally ill people by Maine police in 2011 prompted the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram to examine law enforcement's use of deadly force. Since 1990, police have fired on 101 people, many of them mentally ill, and in every case the state attorney general ruled that the shooting was justified. The newspaper sought to find out why so many mentally ill Mainers were being shot and whether the outcomes were avoidable. The investigation, involving hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of documents, revealed that Maine and rest of the country have failed to employ methods or invest in training that could defuse life-threatening situations with mentally impaired people.
http://www.pressherald.com/special/Maine_police_deadly_force_series_Day_1.html
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/maine-should-revive-police-shooting-panel-bill_2012-12-16.html
12/13/12 Dear Editor:
The fact is that there is a culture of stigma against mentally ill people and people who are different from by and large general populations worldwide and in any community, not just Maine, which manifests itself in sub-human mannerisms by some people of general populations towards people with mental illness.
For example, 77% of media when portraying mentally ill individuals (whether in news or on TV programs) portrays mentally ill people as criminal whereas the actual statistic of mentally ill people who are criminal is less than 3%: a statistic that reflects the general population's criminal element in America.
I, myself, who has always been a little different in my background, speech, actions and mannerisms, was diagnosed with the MENTAL HEALTH diagnosis of schizophrenia in 1996 after three years living in my vehicle and locking myself in a library reading and writing.
Another fact is that absolutely everybody has a mental health issue at some point in their lives, if not a mental health issue 24/7/365 for their entire lives being that everybody has a brain.
Concerning the term "voices" that psychiatrists have dubbed as a symptom of mental health in the DSM-IV, if "voices" originate in the brain as there is no other source for them: then what are "voices" but thoughts?
The term "voices," in my opinion, is an impetus for malicious people to tease or bully people with severe mental health issues.
So, that 42% of police incident using deadly force in Maine is against people with severe mental health issues does not surprise me with regard to my experiences.
Also, as a person who abhors violence in any form and a person who has taken steps to help those who seem or are less fortunate than me by for example visiting a children's ward at a hospital and retirement facilities with my two successive trained pet therapy dogs intermittently since 1998 upon settling in Maine: I would venture to state that by and large people who would kill than be killed or beat up than be beat up are the people with severe mental health issues: if not outright psychopaths.
Lastly, the term is "mental health:" NOT "mental illness," which connotes stigma and reflects the very real culture of stigmatic perception and interactions by some in general populations against people diagnosed with mental health issues, such as Bi-Polar or Schizophrenia: not to mention against the LBGTQ community, among others who act or appear different from populations at large in communities worldwide.
AGGRAVATED ILLNESS: http://youtu.be/yPSWK7yPi4U
http://www.pressherald.com/special/Maine_police_deadly_force_series_Day_1.html
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/maine-should-revive-police-shooting-panel-bill_2012-12-16.html
12/13/12 Dear Editor:
The fact is that there is a culture of stigma against mentally ill people and people who are different from by and large general populations worldwide and in any community, not just Maine, which manifests itself in sub-human mannerisms by some people of general populations towards people with mental illness.
For example, 77% of media when portraying mentally ill individuals (whether in news or on TV programs) portrays mentally ill people as criminal whereas the actual statistic of mentally ill people who are criminal is less than 3%: a statistic that reflects the general population's criminal element in America.
I, myself, who has always been a little different in my background, speech, actions and mannerisms, was diagnosed with the MENTAL HEALTH diagnosis of schizophrenia in 1996 after three years living in my vehicle and locking myself in a library reading and writing.
Another fact is that absolutely everybody has a mental health issue at some point in their lives, if not a mental health issue 24/7/365 for their entire lives being that everybody has a brain.
Concerning the term "voices" that psychiatrists have dubbed as a symptom of mental health in the DSM-IV, if "voices" originate in the brain as there is no other source for them: then what are "voices" but thoughts?
The term "voices," in my opinion, is an impetus for malicious people to tease or bully people with severe mental health issues.
So, that 42% of police incident using deadly force in Maine is against people with severe mental health issues does not surprise me with regard to my experiences.
Also, as a person who abhors violence in any form and a person who has taken steps to help those who seem or are less fortunate than me by for example visiting a children's ward at a hospital and retirement facilities with my two successive trained pet therapy dogs intermittently since 1998 upon settling in Maine: I would venture to state that by and large people who would kill than be killed or beat up than be beat up are the people with severe mental health issues: if not outright psychopaths.
Lastly, the term is "mental health:" NOT "mental illness," which connotes stigma and reflects the very real culture of stigmatic perception and interactions by some in general populations against people diagnosed with mental health issues, such as Bi-Polar or Schizophrenia: not to mention against the LBGTQ community, among others who act or appear different from populations at large in communities worldwide.
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