'The Mislead Stigmatism of Mental Illness'

'I became infuriated dapple reading a quote from Payne County territorial dominion Attorney inebriate Hudson. Hudson referred to a leery who had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic seven age before he allegedly chance event an Oklahoma farming University student from Enid on June 25, 1996. According to a story in the Sept. 24, 1997 Tulsa World, Hudson said, `You cant even liberty chit down the highway or bug a cycle without, in the fend for of your mind thinking, I fancy some zany doesnt drive by with a gun.` Since October is receptive argona Mental health Awareness Month, I feel it is my responsibleness to make a conscious driving to enlighten Mr. Hudson and state who are the kindred him. Please dont grab me wrong. I suffer for the victims, including the student, Dean Rogers, who was al nonpareil 24 when he was killed. I sorrow for his biking companion who was deactivate immediately afterward a biff pierced some(prenominal) of his lungs. But wha t Hudson evidently doesnt realize is that we are all subject to the onslaught of psychic distemper.\nAttorneys, psychiatrists, doctors and almost anyone could arise schizophrenia or bipolar phrenetic depression. It could be you. It doesnt direct to be genetic. It is like cancer, a tenderness attack or AIDS. Mental illness does not discriminate. in that location are, of course, people who are more liable(predicate) to it. I dont retrieve the `goofball` was luck of a halo who deliberately killed somebody as partitioning of an initiation. He was a person who had no control everywhere his actions at the m of the shooting. The `goofball` probably didnt have doorway to medical safekeeping or a family or friends to direction for him. At one point, I divided up Hudsons ignorance concerning mental illness. That changed for me when soulfulness I was finishing to fell predate to this all-too-common problem. I covey this victim to a psychiatric hospital where he voluntar ily was admitted. Diagnosed with bipolar manic depression, two weeks after he go forth the hospital. It was two months though before he felt normal. there was no keep an eye on of this... '