The author does not define mental illness. Illnesses are created by consensus not science. Psychiatric illness is behavior and speech which psychiatrists do not like or do not understand. They are arbitrary. They have no pathology.
He recognizes that violence by persons accused of mental illness is no more common than among the normal population. Could it be that is because mental illness is a fake illness and people so designated are no different from others? Regarding violent persons, one serious misguided practice among psychiatrists and criminal justice professionals is to make criminals into patients. This does a disservice to those peaceful eccentric people who offend psychiatrists. They are lumped together with evil criminals.
Some of the regular sources of the notion that mental patients are violent comes directly from police and prosecutors who use their official positions to slander people. But an essential assist comes from journalists who publish what the police and prosecutors say. The courts allow these abuses by enforcing rules that prevent persons accused of mental illness from enjoying rights and privileges guaranteed to others by the US Constitution.
Though this author may recognize the goodness of persons accused of mental illness, many of his colleagues hold as offensive attitudes as police, prosecutors and journalists. It is mostly psychiatrists who prevent their patients, the source of their income, from enjoying their rights.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/opinions/x188784216/Guest-commentary-Look-beyond-the-headlines-when-it-comes-to-mental-illness
Guest commentary: Look beyond the headlines when it comes to mental illness
By Scott M. Bock
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Feb 14, 2011 @ 09:42 AM
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