tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2079191884214902121..comments2024-03-29T09:53:45.879-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: A sad death, and a strange onePeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-70305008511274156932009-04-23T08:04:00.000-05:002009-04-23T08:04:00.000-05:00The US has closed most of its institutions to care...<I>The US has closed most of its institutions to care for those with mental disorders, preferring to leave them in society and treat them with drugs that control their behavior.</I>Could it be that going in for psychiatric help has such a big bad social stygma attached? Even by our - supposedly - enlightened society?<br /><br />Even a diagnosis of depression gets people labeld as "carzy" or "nut-case" or "lunatic". And if this same person ever gets involved in some kind of legal squable, things get very nasty in a hurry if this info is "public" knowledge.<br /><br />And <B>nobody</B> wants to be labeled "crazy"!!Mario in PYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90683679184879470422009-04-23T02:59:00.000-05:002009-04-23T02:59:00.000-05:00You know...I have to say, people who get violently...You know...I have to say, people who get violently angry on a hair trigger don't get a lot of sympathy from me. I simply have no use for such types, and I just can't find it in myself to feel sorry for one even under circumstances as gross as this.<br /><br />It's a learned behavior. They're bullies. They've figured out a way to get other people to bow to their immediate emotional needs.<br /><br />This one flat-out burned herself to death, but every one of them is slowly killing themselves and the worst have the ability to kill anybody nearby on a whim.Jim Marchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830919998461849806noreply@blogger.com