This is a response to a post at Tiger Beatdown. They were not actually attacking persons with mental illness. The article is worth reading.
The one fact that remains constant is that only dangerous people who are mentally ill ever get any press. The majority of mentally ill people are more likely to be victims than victimizers. The majority of mentally ill people are also not delusional. Many suffer with mood disorders such as major depression and bipolar disorder, which comes in varying degrees of severity. Almost all mentally ill people are marginalized. Most of us just want to be treated with respect and to be given affordable, compassionate assistance for the conditions we live with.
This is not to say that there are not any dangerous mentally ill people. Just to say that they're the only ones who get any press. They're much more "interesting" than us run of the mill "nut jobs."
