Reply #9: This article posts the strongest indictment I could find [View All]

[HereSince1628]

against the mentally ill that is based on published evidence. I posted a site that is actually maximally critical of my position.

I could have gone with this link:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jaOfkg416WEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA14&dq=violence+and+mental+illness&ots=8BKkluWymL&sig=A4PC8ITkNfFk8mhzOsl4NAlozaw#v=onepage&q=violence%20and%20mental%20illness&f=false


The website I linked to still finds that use of inhibition lowering drugs is MORE a predictor than mental illness, even among severely mentally ill.

If you compare methodologies across the various studies sited in both places you'll see reasons why the results come out with similar patterns of risk but different percentages, particualarly for the risk of violence among the mentally well.


But, going back to the original concern about mental illness and gun violence...downsizing the Milwaukee County Mental Health facility short-changes the mentally ill, but isn't going to put a lot of dangerous people on the street. Persons placed in the facility are usually there for short terms and by far the reason they are there is for being risks to themselves either because of low global functioning or as a consequence of suicidal depression and self-harming behavior associated with various Axis II disorders.