A Knoxville, Tennessee news crew was covering the near-fatal stabbing of a 61-year-old woman at an apartment complex Tuesday morning when the victim’s apparently disturbed daughter approached them and confessed to the crime, with the camera rolling…
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Clip from the Friday, February 21st 2014 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday – friday 4-6pm Eastern.
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Mental health issues have a huge stigma around them, which makes it hard for someone to reach out. Also, mental health issues have been largely criminalized. Reagan shut down all the mental hospitals and now when someone goes into crisis they usually get no attention until their behavior crosses into “criminal” acts. There is also a problem with the mental health system being based on a medical model, where there is a “sick” “patient” and an all-knowing doctor who knows what is “best” and just throwing drugs at them. Thankfully now many places are turning to the recovery model, which empowers the person and lets them know that they have the power within them to be well. It also lets the person decide for themselves what “wellness” means. “Peer counseling” is the route many mental health agencies are turning to. People who have overcome some of their own struggles being trained to help others just like them. Our own lived experience is the basis of our “education” though. Changing such a huge system takes time. Too many people are still stuck in a mental health system that thinks they will never get well and are just lifelong drug consumers to be managed.