Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on March 12, 2014, at 21:10:48
In reply to Severe Mental Illness is treated like a joke, posted by poser938 on March 2, 2014, at 13:10:43
Ive been thru everything you describe years ago and it made me extremely angry. I even went into the legal profession BECAUSE OF my personal experiences. I thought it was all ridiculous.
Then I gradually figured it out. The reason why severe mental illness is treated like a joke is due to the simple fact that few sufferers of severe mental illness vote. Period. We are invisible to the people in political power, the people who control the financial purse strings for government funded science research.
Compare the way the AIDS/HIV/homosexual movement raised hell in the late eighties thru the nineties to develop acceptance, better understanding and aggressive scientific research into HIV/AIDS. The result? Modern science mobilized in a warlike assault on that illness, which is very complicated like all viral illnesses and now, its (supposedly from what I read) a survivable illness.
If the severe mental illness community would mobilize and demand better drugs, better science research, the same results could be achieved with severe mental illness in a relatively short period of time...probably fifteen years to two decades.
The HIV/AIDS/homosexual "lobby" all vote aggressively. They learned that early on. The severely mentally ill "lobby" do not vote aggressively. Maybe some of the parents of severely mentally ill vote aggressively...the NAMI members and all. But the actual sufferers of severe mental illness DO NOT vote aggressively. Hence they are politically invisible.
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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