media

[arbil_poieo]

While mental illness is a serious issue it's become abused. People who suffer from mental illness do struggle in a lot of areas that a lot of people take for granted, but because of the overuse phrase in the media people will be more afraid of someone who has a mental illness, afraid that they'll shoot up the place. The media digs for mental illness of some kind and once they do it's brought up and talked about for awhile. Mental illness is so loosely linked to mass murders; do I think you have to be insane to shoot innocent kids? Yes I do but do I think he's clinically textbook insane? No I don't. He was one person who had mental issues, but it's not an excuse to go on a killing spree at an elementary school. Many people suffer from a mental illness, but they're not a threat. Instead of the media educating us on a mass murderer's mental illness, talk about him as an individual who did something indescribable because he chose to. I don't think it's fair to use that as the only possible explanation. It isn't the mental illness or the gun that killed all those people it was the person, I wish for once the media would make that distinction, call it for what it is without the excuses. It isn't fair and it isn't right for the victims or for the people who do have a mental illness. Instead of wrapping it up in one nice neat little box of mental illness the media needs to tell their audience that some people are capable of doing anything.