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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 3180416" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>The mental health thing is not nearly as straight forward as people would like to hope. The DSM has to be updated from time to time. What makes someone mentally unhealthy can and has changed over time. Many mentally-ill people don't have symptoms that can easily be detected until they manifest themselves in an outburst such as a mass shooting. Many people who seem obviously disturbed would never be a threat to anybody. Some people who would commit a mass shooting are just plain evil, and that's not something mental healthcare is equipped to deal with.</p><p>The fact that psychology is still so poorly understood makes it really easy to go on a mental-health witch hunt. Homosexuality has been viewed as a mental illness. In the future, the mere desire to own a gun could be officially recognized as a mental illness. It seems like some people already think it should be. Even among the better understood mental illnesses, it's not necessarily clear where the line should be for starting to deny people their rights. Should someone with social anxiety disorder not be allowed to own a gun? Should someone with OCD?</p><p>What about misdiagnoses? I assume most mental health providers would start erring on the side of caution when determining who is and is not a danger to themselves or society, if for no other reason than to avoid liability.</p><p>Using mental health as an excuse to deny people their rights has lead to situations easily as tragic as those brought about by guns. For a really good example, even if it is dramatized, watch "Changeling". But there are other horrifying examples of mental-healthcare gone wrong, including lobotomies, electro-shock therapy (though this is still sometimes used with positive results, it was overused and crossed the line into torture quite often and sometimes caused death), eugenics, the list goes on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 3180416, member: 63706"] The mental health thing is not nearly as straight forward as people would like to hope. The DSM has to be updated from time to time. What makes someone mentally unhealthy can and has changed over time. Many mentally-ill people don't have symptoms that can easily be detected until they manifest themselves in an outburst such as a mass shooting. Many people who seem obviously disturbed would never be a threat to anybody. Some people who would commit a mass shooting are just plain evil, and that's not something mental healthcare is equipped to deal with. The fact that psychology is still so poorly understood makes it really easy to go on a mental-health witch hunt. Homosexuality has been viewed as a mental illness. In the future, the mere desire to own a gun could be officially recognized as a mental illness. It seems like some people already think it should be. Even among the better understood mental illnesses, it's not necessarily clear where the line should be for starting to deny people their rights. Should someone with social anxiety disorder not be allowed to own a gun? Should someone with OCD? What about misdiagnoses? I assume most mental health providers would start erring on the side of caution when determining who is and is not a danger to themselves or society, if for no other reason than to avoid liability. Using mental health as an excuse to deny people their rights has lead to situations easily as tragic as those brought about by guns. For a really good example, even if it is dramatized, watch "Changeling". But there are other horrifying examples of mental-healthcare gone wrong, including lobotomies, electro-shock therapy (though this is still sometimes used with positive results, it was overused and crossed the line into torture quite often and sometimes caused death), eugenics, the list goes on. [/QUOTE]
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