There are complicated reasons for this, many of them summed up by an informative Bazelon report, but what it comes down to is that all too often, Americans simply don’t have access to the mental-health resources they need. They fall through crack after crack in the system, and hitting bottom usually involves an encounter with the police.If only that were true.
Fk your fking system.
The fact is, even if they do have access, the treatments don't work either.
As Bernstein put it, “People rarely, rarely, rarely just snap. If anybody is watching, there’s an observable trajectory where everybody knows somebody’s at risk, everybody knows somebody isn’t doing well.” For whatever reasons, Kajieme Powell snapped without anyone noticing. For his story to have had a happy ending, he needed help long before he stole those energy drinks.For whatever reasons? You are the reason.
Because of fking Freud and the generations of "therapists" that came after him-
Mr. Powell would have needed to get help about a century ago. What used to be "common knowledge" has faded into the past- nobody these days seems to be trained to recognize chronic infections or septic delirium when they look right at them.
In particular, the "mental health professionals".
But especially the guys with the guns.
Even when I'm not sick, this shit makes me crazy.
