Blame Dennis if you want to (shoutout from Denninmi)

[Tess Anderson]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022155474

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:10 PM
 Denninmi (4,850 posts)

Blame everything on mental illness. Blame me personally if you want.
Last edited Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:12 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Ever since Newtown, it seems to me half the threads on here touch on mental illness as a cause of the woes of society.

It would be unrealistic to deny that mental illness does play a role in some events, like the murders at Va Tech, Tucson, Aurora, Wisconsin, and Newtown. And apparently in the subway platform hate crime murder in NY.

But it's equally unrealistic to blame every woe on MH problems.

Gun crimes might be caused by MI, but be definition can't occur without available firearms.

Alex Jones may be a self-aggrandizing fraud. But I have heard no evidence that he has had a psychiatric evaluation which diagnosed a recocognized MI.

There was a MI element to the NY platform murder, but there was an equal element of a hate crime, bigotry of Arab Americans.

Prozac and other drugs which help millions are dismissed as dangerous, even poisonous, because they have the potential to cause serious side effects, including exacerbation of depression or psychosis, in a very small percentage of patients.

I personally find all of this very offensive. As a guy struggling to move past the shame, embarrassment, and stigma of my recent psychiatric breakdown and hospitalization, I would ask that DU members be more sensitive. This is, after all, a liberal left leaning forum, I would like to hope that as a group, we could be more sensitive, empathetic, and enlightened than our Freeper or conservative cave counterparts. I appeal to the better angels found within all if you.

But if not, tear into me. There is little anyone could do to me at this pooint that could hurt me more than I have already been hurt and traumatized by my personal experiences.18   
 

more sensitive, empathetic, and enlightened than thou.

[Big Dog]

If Dummy Dennis the Menace was not an unrepentant  child molester, he might find people more sensitive, empathetic, and enlightened.

Just put the shotgun in your mouth, Dennis. It'll only hurt for a second.

[marv]

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:10 PM
 Denninmi (4,850 posts)

(snip)

Blame everything on mental illness. Blame me personally if you want.
I personally find all of this very offensive. As a guy struggling to move past the shame, embarrassment, and stigma of my recent psychiatric breakdown and hospitalization, I would ask that DU members be more sensitive. This is, after all, a liberal left leaning forum, I would like to hope that as a group, we could be more sensitive, empathetic, and enlightened than our Freeper or conservative cave counterparts. I appeal to the better angels found within all if you.

But if not, tear into me. There is little anyone could do to me at this pooint that could hurt me more than I have already been hurt and traumatized by my personal experiences.18   

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022155474

more sensitive, empathetic, and enlightened than thou.

...but still lacking a prefontal lobotomy....and casteration.

[Jasonw560]

Dennis, you DUmmies couldn't be empathetic, enlightened, and sensitive if Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates themselves gave you their powers.

[Carl]

Did you take note how quickly NCtraveler was pushed into the hole dug in the ground.
You are nothing but a buzzing sound in the air to your beloved leftists.
As soon as commanded or they sense they need to,all you will hear is the sound of swords drawn.
You have aligned yourself with an evil that only wants your acceptance of their power over you.
As long as you enable that it is all good,as soon as you are a thorn in the side you are left alone in a desert.

Idiot.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Yes, heaven forbid we treat people who can't control themselves as if they were people who can't control themselves.

The real solution is to disarm those who choose to be good people.

[Freeper]

Tell you what Denninmi, when you are looking for help for your problems and willing to do the work to overcome your problems then I may have some sympathy for you, but all you do is piss and moan on DU how much your life and your problems suck and, how you want everyone to kiss your ass because of your problems. You aren't any more special than anyone else, now man up and deal with your issues instead of trying to get everyone on the internets to tell you how wonderful you are.

[GOBUCKS]

With every post, DUmmy Dennis the Menace confirms that he's an out-of-control lunatic.

Which isn't surprising, since he's been officially, professionally diagnosed as a nut.

He should be confined to a padded room, but will not be, at least right away.

And that's good, because his insane, incessant, crackpot posts are some of the funniest stuff at the DUmp.

He monopolizes the DUmp loonybin forum the way the elephant guy does at the Old DUmp.

We should get some more comedy gold the next time he opens a credit card bill.

[franksolich]

We should get some more comedy gold the next time he opens a credit card bill.

You know, maybe he has a plan.

I have no doubt he's going to keep running up his bills.

And I'm wondering what happens when someone gets committed to an insane asylum and can't pay their bills any more.  Are they cancelled, written off, or what?  I can't think of anything else that can possibly happen (if the credit cards aren't joint accounts, with more than one person responsible) in such a case.

I think his plan is to run the credit card bills up to the size of Montana, and then get out of paying them by being committed.

[Gina]

If Dummy Dennis the Menace was not an unrepentant  child molester, he might find people more sensitive, empathetic, and enlightened.

What do you mean?  You can pm me if you want.

[franksolich]

What do you mean?  You can pm me if you want.

You know, I'm very curious, as I've never seen this phenomenon before.

What happens if somebody has credit card bills, but is sent to an asylum?  Being locked up, one can't possibly work to pay off those bills.

Anybody know?

[Gina]

You know, I'm very curious, as I've never seen this phenomenon before.

What happens if somebody has credit card bills, but is sent to an asylum?  Being locked up, one can't possibly work to pay off those bills.

Anybody know?

I was questioning the "child molester" part.

[FlaGator]

I don't blame everything on mental illness but I do recognize its culpability when it is an attribute of the crime. Most mentally ill aren't violent but society does need to do more to recognize those who are and do what is necessary to see to it that both society and the ill person are safe from the deceased mind.

I don't fault the gun or the knife for it's misuse any more than I give credit to the hammer or the saw for building a house.

[Big Dog]

What do you mean?  You can pm me if you want.

I can PM you?

I can PM you!!!   

See, she DOES like me best!