That, and im going to show you some of that right now. We have a study that was just completed in connecticut, and this is sort of the punchline from the study. We found 23,000 people in connecticut who had serious Mental Illness, recurrent major depression, all of whom had been hospitalized. We brought together the records from the criminal justice system, from the Mental Health system, from the courts, and we looked at their risk in every month over an eightyear period of time of committing a Violent Crime as a function of whether they were disqualified, and patrolling for a bunch of other predictors. These are involuntary versus the voluntary. Involuntary are people with serious Mental Illness who had a disqualifying health record. Youd expect them to have higher risk of Violent Crime, just because the criteria for getting committed are correlated with that. Now, the Comparison Group are volunteer. They dont have a gun disqualifying Mental Health record. And as you can see, from 200
The need for mental health services is as strong as ever. A 100-thousand-dollar anonymous donation to the Alluvion Health Foundation will go a long way in addressing the issue.
I first wrote this story of my mother back in 2000, six years after her death. I share it today as my first entry on this important blog, in the hope that people will see that there is another way. In future entries I want to share with you why I don't believe in mental illness and the use of psychotropic medications, and how I believe people who are experiencing emotional distress can get well, stay well, and live the lives they want to live.