
May is officially Mental Health Awareness Month. I cannot finish out this month without weighing in on the subject considering my personal experiences. Today so many people are inundated with constant stressors such as finances, rapidly deteriorating living standards and constant increasing social strife.
The above article highlights the proportion of Americans suffering from certain diagnoses and anxiety being the highest. Prolonged anxiety can develop into much deeper psychological pathologies.
This is completely natural response to crisis events.
But the reason is NOT natural!
There are multiple major events that is going to collide into an inevitable consequence. Economic fracture, escalating political friction, and mass hiring of aggressive law enforcement. How could anyone not see a problem here!
Logically, police is NOT a substitute for medical care. Further more, the modern law enforcement have gotten way to aggressive and violent for even normal police work let alone deal with someone that has complex mental health issues. Conservatives know the economy is coming apart at every seam and America is growing angry about it and the people are sick of their policies. So conservatives only path is to hire more of these unhinged law enforcement to attack and quell resistance. This is so historically cliche its borderline insane! But these officers aren’t just attacking resistance people and criminals but people suffering from mental health and other medical issues.
When the Trump Administration took an axe to health care It couldn’t be a more of a worse time. So, many people are being thrown onto the streets. Families are torn apart by constant economic strife that mental health has sky rocketed and a lot of these people will naturally act out in ways that no doubt lead to police interactions leading to a significantly worse situation.
To show you how much of a vile person Trump and the conservative party is that supports him. Below is an American Bar Associations link about how the Trump administration plan on dealing with the in mass increase of mental health crisis by unconstitutionally forcing people into civil commitment-essentially medical jail!
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/disabilityrights/news/trumps-executive-order/
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