Thursday, February 26, 2015

Let's get a few thing straight about mental health.

- Twenty percent of the adults age 0-64 in Texas are in poverty. 

- Twenty-four percent of all Texans are uninsured.

When a high school teacher says anyone is a killer and their was nothing wrong with their mind, that is not expert opinion.

It is difficult to be an adult with an undiagnosed mental health problem, but, they persist anyway because they have a life to live.

It is not unusual for young adults who have undiagnosed mental health problems to enter the military. They are usually found out there and placed on disability.

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) (click here) is the most common co-occurring disorder in people with schizophrenia. Both biological factors and psychosocial factors are thought to contribute to this co-occurrence. Schizophrenia patients with AUD are more likely to have social, legal, and
medical problems, compared with other people with schizophrenia. AUD also complicates the course and treatment of schizophrenia. 

By Robert E. Drake, Ph.D., and Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D. 

It is NOT unusual for an undiagnosed adult with schizophrenia to SELF - MEDICATE with alcohol, drugs or both and develop a dependency that sustains past diagnosis.

When the media has no idea of what they are talking about they provide misinformation to the public.

All of this should have come out in the Texas murder trial whereby one soldier killed two others for no apparent reason, but, it didn't and it speaks to the lack of a complete defense of the Defendant. 

Schizophrenics are not allowed to own or operate a gun in the USA. That is by law. I suppose background checks weren't done before entering the firing range, huh?