This time, the prattle is about mental illness and gun control.
I'm a former Gerontological Social Worker and Civil Service Certified Youth Advisor. I'm bound by certain laws, the primary being right to privacy laws. My docotrs are bound by them and so is my Congressman. I'm no kind of gossip monger...which sadly, most people with "opinions" are.
I don't disagree that there needs to be gun control. I seriously disagree that it should be bounded by what is loosely termed "mental illness". I believe in the State of New Jersey it requires several physicians and a judge to make a determintion that someone is "mentallt ill" or "mentaly defective." Maybe a few of you yappers ought to watch a few more episodes of "Law and Order" or the like.
I found my mentor while I was doing my Social Work residency in a Mental Health "Sanctuary". Strange as it may sound, I was there in a professional capacity and this person who for years claimed to be my mother phoned them and fortunately for me, was directed to speak to him. I was called to his office. It was no shock when he said to me "I have never heard a parent speak this way about their child. This woman is not your mother and she hates you. She wants me to lock you up and said she'd pay for it. I told her if she had money to waste, I deserved to be sent on a cruise. She got mad."
She could have gone to jail for kidnapping me is what is underneath that whole thing. It is a not uncommon habit of people who are rejected, spurned, disagreed with, abusive and criminal who love to declare their opponents mentally unstable. Some suffer, some run for help, just as if they were bleeding, bitten to death by a non-relenting bug or infected by a continually resurfacing virus. Most people in availing themselves of "Mental Health Help" are victims who need a sane person to relate to because those in their lives are self-serving, do not care about the vicitm and cause ongoing damage. Yet they themselves will never ascribe to getting help; they and only they are sane and there is nothing wrong with them, their word is absolute and cannot be disputed according to them. And they put on their little acts. Some people suffer their whole lives dependent on the like, other break away with help from their peers or someone sane and stable who has no personal stake in the lives of the individual.
That being said, how is it that people don't realize the vast numbers of men especially who desperately need help because they are abusive, may become violent or self-destructive (count the number of persons who think all they need is a good stiff drink or "just a taste"(meaning street drugs)? Besides for their egos, one of the reasons is that even if they have never touched a gun in their lives, their right to bear arms is threatened because they want to make sure they keep their heads on straight?
Releasing lists of persons seeking Mental Health help will only harm the innocent, as ususal. Devising a test at the point of purchase won't help because too many people working for the Government do not use an impartial objective in making determinations. Their objective would be keeping guns off the street and their own ego having the power to do so. Again innocent people would be hurt. The answer doesn't lie in targeting one group of people about whom one knows nothing. Better they seek mental health help without being punished, denounced or denied certain rights before they get to the point when they want to pick up a gun.
That would require Society as a whole to start respecting each other. In this country where casual slander and personal derision is considered a Constitutional Right, it's obviously asking too much. You don't want to look at yourselves or the problems society at large causes or the failures to notice the children or know anything about them and much less care about your neighbors, that someone may be having a problem and need help. People who are in Law Enforcement and in Government are among those to whom attention should be paid. Everyone has a saturation point. When I'm at mine, I pick up a pen. And when I do so, I usually have an answer in mind as well as a logical progression of events leading to a conclusion.
I wish I could say the same for the rest of everyone who wants to make war when the truth is, the other country hasn't done a thing to you. It's the old "boss yells at you, you yell at your wife, the wife yells at the kid, the kid kicks the dog" syndrome. What did the dog do? Nothing. He was there, that's all.
And from my point of view, a good portion of persons holding political office aren't mentally fit to do so. Because it's all about ego. Want to stop gun violence? They'll find another way to wreak their vengeance. It might be a good idea to find out where the organized gangs are getting their super weapons. I doubt that any of the drive-by shootists are getting mental health help. I do believe that this country runs on threats of deprivation, retaliation and violence, both in your homes and your government. Change that. Because I think most of you are nuts.
Regine Pegi
I'm a former Gerontological Social Worker and Civil Service Certified Youth Advisor. I'm bound by certain laws, the primary being right to privacy laws. My docotrs are bound by them and so is my Congressman. I'm no kind of gossip monger...which sadly, most people with "opinions" are.
I don't disagree that there needs to be gun control. I seriously disagree that it should be bounded by what is loosely termed "mental illness". I believe in the State of New Jersey it requires several physicians and a judge to make a determintion that someone is "mentallt ill" or "mentaly defective." Maybe a few of you yappers ought to watch a few more episodes of "Law and Order" or the like.
I found my mentor while I was doing my Social Work residency in a Mental Health "Sanctuary". Strange as it may sound, I was there in a professional capacity and this person who for years claimed to be my mother phoned them and fortunately for me, was directed to speak to him. I was called to his office. It was no shock when he said to me "I have never heard a parent speak this way about their child. This woman is not your mother and she hates you. She wants me to lock you up and said she'd pay for it. I told her if she had money to waste, I deserved to be sent on a cruise. She got mad."
She could have gone to jail for kidnapping me is what is underneath that whole thing. It is a not uncommon habit of people who are rejected, spurned, disagreed with, abusive and criminal who love to declare their opponents mentally unstable. Some suffer, some run for help, just as if they were bleeding, bitten to death by a non-relenting bug or infected by a continually resurfacing virus. Most people in availing themselves of "Mental Health Help" are victims who need a sane person to relate to because those in their lives are self-serving, do not care about the vicitm and cause ongoing damage. Yet they themselves will never ascribe to getting help; they and only they are sane and there is nothing wrong with them, their word is absolute and cannot be disputed according to them. And they put on their little acts. Some people suffer their whole lives dependent on the like, other break away with help from their peers or someone sane and stable who has no personal stake in the lives of the individual.
That being said, how is it that people don't realize the vast numbers of men especially who desperately need help because they are abusive, may become violent or self-destructive (count the number of persons who think all they need is a good stiff drink or "just a taste"(meaning street drugs)? Besides for their egos, one of the reasons is that even if they have never touched a gun in their lives, their right to bear arms is threatened because they want to make sure they keep their heads on straight?
Releasing lists of persons seeking Mental Health help will only harm the innocent, as ususal. Devising a test at the point of purchase won't help because too many people working for the Government do not use an impartial objective in making determinations. Their objective would be keeping guns off the street and their own ego having the power to do so. Again innocent people would be hurt. The answer doesn't lie in targeting one group of people about whom one knows nothing. Better they seek mental health help without being punished, denounced or denied certain rights before they get to the point when they want to pick up a gun.
That would require Society as a whole to start respecting each other. In this country where casual slander and personal derision is considered a Constitutional Right, it's obviously asking too much. You don't want to look at yourselves or the problems society at large causes or the failures to notice the children or know anything about them and much less care about your neighbors, that someone may be having a problem and need help. People who are in Law Enforcement and in Government are among those to whom attention should be paid. Everyone has a saturation point. When I'm at mine, I pick up a pen. And when I do so, I usually have an answer in mind as well as a logical progression of events leading to a conclusion.
I wish I could say the same for the rest of everyone who wants to make war when the truth is, the other country hasn't done a thing to you. It's the old "boss yells at you, you yell at your wife, the wife yells at the kid, the kid kicks the dog" syndrome. What did the dog do? Nothing. He was there, that's all.
And from my point of view, a good portion of persons holding political office aren't mentally fit to do so. Because it's all about ego. Want to stop gun violence? They'll find another way to wreak their vengeance. It might be a good idea to find out where the organized gangs are getting their super weapons. I doubt that any of the drive-by shootists are getting mental health help. I do believe that this country runs on threats of deprivation, retaliation and violence, both in your homes and your government. Change that. Because I think most of you are nuts.
Regine Pegi
