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White House Floats Gun Control Proposals

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Dark_Falcon1/07/2013 7:51:36 am PST

re: #430 darthstar

This country is far more advanced in understanding people’s need for mental health services than you think. The America you describe is stuck in the 1950s. “Don’t take Johnny to a psychiatrist…the neighbors will talk!” It’s bullshit and your repeating that fear of stigma is only promoting that fear of stigma.

The way you help people who need to seek help is by not judging them, or telling them that others will judge them. You accept them, encourage them, and support them. Period. Fuck those assholes who might have irrational fears of people with PTSD. They’re part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Don’t be part of the problem.

I don’t have such irrational fears. What I was saying is that part of the problem is concerns about running afoul of people who do hold them. I know those fears are bullshit, but they can still be found at times, and they are aided and abetted by the desire many people have to take the easy way out in both thought and life.