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Did anyone see the recent “four corners” episode?

Eden1919Senior Contributor31 Aug 2020, 6:51 pm AEST

Did anyone see the recent “four corners” episode?

Warning this topic may be triggering but I haven’t gone into any specific detail in my post.

So I am always interested in mental health reports but this one left me feeling a little weird.... it basically made it seem like anyone with a mental illness especially schizophrenia who goes off their medication or even just gets a bit unwell is going to become violent or is a risk to the community. The whole report left me feeling super uncomfortable because not only did they continuously link mental illness to violence but they didn’t even once interview an actual person with lived experiences about the issues they were covering. It just made me feel like people only want to control the mentally ill not help them or understand them in anyway. I mean I do agree that there services are seriously lacking across the country but the report just felt really awful to watch especially as someone with a diagnosis that kept being linked to violent acts.

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Eden1919Senior Contributor01 Sept 2020, 12:39 pm AEST

Re: Did anyone see the recent “four corners” episode?

@Bunniekins statistically speaking the percentage of mentally ill people who become violent is much less than those who don’t technically it is even less than members of the mentally well community. I am not saying it doesn’t happen which is why I said before about the comment I agreed with being that the cases of violence still need to be talked about but not at the expense of the community as a whole. No one is disagreeing that there needs to be more services provided just that we need to be careful the way we speak about mental health because it is already so misunderstood.

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chibamSenior Contributor01 Sept 2020, 4:30 pm AEST

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@Bunniekins @frog Very true about it swinging both ways. Which, I think, accounts for a lot of the blame for why things don't seem to change much in this issue. The powers that be can't help anyone without hurting a bunch of others; because the range of needs are such polar opposites.

Yet another symptom of our fractured society, unfortunately.

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