> Another edit: work in a psych ward. 95% of people in there are violent addicts of various substances. This is not a coincidence.
Do you realise how stigmatising this sounds?
You're making links between mental ill health and violence (people with a MH illness are more likely to be the victim than perpetrator of violence); and you're saying all mental illness is drug related when it obviously is not. You're not correcting for people who had mental illness before they started taking drugs and are self-medicating.
The fact that your ward if full of people in terrible states shows how pisspoor treatment is for peope with mental illness in England.
Do you realise how stigmatising this sounds?
You're making links between mental ill health and violence (people with a MH illness are more likely to be the victim than perpetrator of violence); and you're saying all mental illness is drug related when it obviously is not. You're not correcting for people who had mental illness before they started taking drugs and are self-medicating.
The fact that your ward if full of people in terrible states shows how pisspoor treatment is for peope with mental illness in England.