[Serious] The Mental Health Crisis

[T.J.]

I think I made a thread like this before, but it doesn't hurt to make it again.

What can we do as a people to improve the nature of mental health in the world? I don't know what it's like in other countries, but here in America the jails and prisons hold the most mental health patients instead of hospitals. Whenever mental health issues are brought up, it's brought up by conservatives who want to distract from safer gun control measures. And I hate this narrative that everyone who goes out on a shooting is mentally ill as I feel it demonizes mentally ill people. Just because someone is mentally ill doesn't mean they're going to go out and kill a bunch of people. Actually they're more than likely to be the victim of a violent crime than commit one.

Discuss.