July is National Minority Mental Health Month

The most dangerous attitude is the ignorant fucking punks who think "It's not a problem to me so it's not worthy of mention."

Perhaps we can send them to another planet where they can lounge by the pool reading Teen Beat while us down here in the REAL world deal with REAL problems.

this proves the phrase."two sides to every story" for every problem person a faces, person B faces his own. The fact that there not the same problem does not make either invalid.

Big word for someone who doesn't understand the concept of "minority" and the problems that come with it.

Brick! Again, you obviously don't realize how different life can be just because you're poor or brown.

Your big words don't mask your ignorance of how different it can be, being a minority. What you said makes sense ONLY ONLY ONLY in a world where everyone has the same opportunities. What you said WOULD make sense if everyone were treated equally. Since neither is the case, what you said is impractical.

You're saying things, but not really saying anything. I have a hard time believing that if George Bush or Bill Gates passed out in a hospital, they'd be ignored for over an hour. Seeing an abundance of technical knowledge, it's a shame that you won't inject any humanity (especially since you're studying psychology) into your assessments. Your posts have a tone of someone walking into a homeless shelter and shouting "Why don't you all just get a job!"

Again, a month of recognition isn't much to ask for considering the hell they have to live with the other 335 days a year. You're being completely insensitive to a very real problem that you HAVE to know exists because you're not stupid. It'll be a cold day in hell before you respond saying "minorities always have all the same opportunities as the majority." For whatever reason, you're stubborn in your insistence that being a minority doesn't come with certain baggage.

This isn't a case of political correctness whatsoever, people throw that term around too much. We live in a world where we HAVE to make slogans and commercials and (insert problem) awareness months because most people never step outside their own experiences. More and more, individualism is being praised and sense of community is undermine.

The audacity of your post was that you were "sick of hearing about this." It was a disgusting sentiment made worse by the fact that you felt it was necessary to post it. You spoke about the mentally ill as if they were criminals, not patients. It was entirely ignorant especially coming from someone studying psychology.

Since minorities make up a disproportionate amount of the lower class, that's two fairly heavy strikes against them. Once you add a mental disease to that mix, the results can be disastrous. I think some people feel like attention placed on minorities suggests favoritism. Nope. It's realism.

I'll refrain from implying that there were undertones of bigotry in your initial post, but you clearly have some sort of issue here, maybe it was just a bad day. I'd never imagine an educated person saying that they're "sick of hearing" about a group that faces adversities. The more you study psychology (depending on the branch) the more you'll connect that dots and understand why this recognition is necessary.

Brown skin+mental disease+poverty=a large mountain to climb.

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Originally Posted by Lee_M And this is why these threads are fucked, any time race and minorities are bought up it turns into a shit fight. And im sorry to say guys but, if you dont want to hear the opinion from someone of a white majority then dont make the thread.

Excuse you! :: We had words a while back in chat because you were stirring up crap and trolling just to annoy people. Since you obviously have nothing of worth or importance to add, I strongly suggest you get the hell out of my thread.

In conclusion I would just like to say, "."

one of the most difficult problems I'm having here is the fact that if a member of a minority group, politically defined, is having a mental health issue, it is an issue that arose, medically, as it would have for a non-minority

if the mental health condition is the issue, it is a medical problem borne by an individual

I don't see how it can logically be politicized, or be cured by a political strategy

I do see how politicizing it, turns it into something else -- possibly a political base for Al Sharpton?

The disease is the same, but that's about where the similarities end. Heart disease for example. This is dangerous for anyone of any size, but when you couple that with obesity you're on a whole new plane of complication. Mental illness sucks, but if you're a minority and mentally ill, you're double-fucked because minorities are NOT equal in many respects.

You're looking at individuals (the part I made red). This month wasn't started because one black person had dementia, it's because that the COMBINATION of being a minority AND mentally ill is a deadly one. The reasoning behind this month is entirely valid. Lots of people think "racism is over, blacks are equal now" and "immigrants can attain citizenship so they're equal now." The numbers tell a different story. It's not that our problems are more important, it's that they're affecting us in large enough amounts that it's worthy of distinction.

Don't let douchebags like Al Sharpton make you think that racism and "classism" are trivial concepts. They're very real, and they have very real repercussions. Do you think that minorities have all the same opportunities and resources that non-minorities do? In some cases, yes, in MANY other cases, no. If you disagree with what I'm saying I'll be glad to dig up a few links but this isn't rocket science. Equality is still a dream, not a reality because the concept of equality is all-encompassing. It leaves no room for exceptions or "we're almost there" or "things are getting better."

There are theories of US healthcare being touched by the long arm of institutionalized healthcare............

Nobody?? It's on the second page. Your post was irrelevant and included little thought or logic. Posting for the sake of posting is stupid.