I feel for the mentally ill also. I have known several myself.
Those who have no control over what they do need to be controlled by someone who does have control over what they do. They should not be let out alone.
If you are killed by someone with mental illness you are just as dead as being killed by someone that has no illness.
I see the failure here as the system that tries to protect them at the risk of people with no illness. If anyone in my family was killed by anyone else, I would not care if that person was mentally ill or not. I would want him dead.
I agree.......with what is in red for sure.....and yes obviously you will be just as dead from someone with or without a mental illness......
I have severe PTSD....I take no drugs for it(except pot when I can) so I understand the hopelessness that invades ones mind....I am lucky....for I do have a strong mind, but I still cant deal with certain situations....thats why I don't go to bars....concerts....anywhere there will be crowds of people....even with the mind I have...... I have a very hard time controlling my anger....or suicidal thoughts.....and only because of my wife and kids have I been even remotely able to deal with this world.
so I have a slight understanding of what it must be like to have NO control over ones mind......it is a living hell....one I don't wish on my worst enemy......
I feel we need to truly help and give some kind of comfort to those like that.....not just lock them up and throw away the key....or put them down like rabid dogs.