John Oliver on the sorry state of mental health in the U.S. and post-shooting stigmatization.

[backscatter712]

John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn’t.

He talks about the stigmatization, and how badly broken our system is.

oh, and he also mentions, in the wake of the Oregon mass-shooting, how in reality, most mentally ill people are not violent, and most violent people are not mentally ill.

[valerief]

1. Once again, our John is spot on! nt

[passiveporcupine]

2. I'm glad he's talking about this...wish Jon was still here.

It's good to hear that some police departments are retraining for this and even setting up special teams. They all need to do this.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. John is getting

over a million hits on YouTube.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. He is right... This is health care that isn't dolled up like knee surgery...

We also nourish these maladies by bullying during the formative years and enabling the worse child care support for crumbling family units.

Then, we hear mental midgets like Trump, Huckle-nuts and the de-conjoiner physician pass judgement while ignoring what Bernie Sanders has to say on mental illness...
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4538456/sen-bernie-sanders-mental-health-care-system

[me b zola]

5. k&R

[Old Crow]

6. Like so many of John Oliver's video essays...

... this should be required viewing for every American. If I were a high school history or civics teacher (is civics still taught anywhere?), I'd be playing a video essay of his once a week in class, followed by a written quiz.

[Uncle Joe]

7. That was a spot on commentary by John Oliver

Thanks for the thread, backscatter.