High School Shooting Shows Need for More Mental Health Funding

spam deleted. Thanks! 'here's to your health!' Many are portraying this 19 year old troubled man as a criminal. Upon greater scrutinization we see he was in fact a developmentally challenged person with depression. As found in countless mass shootings prior to this such as Columbine and Florida Tech, the shooter was a student or former one with a mental illness. May say how can this happen and why? Hat they need to ask is why more shootings haven't occurred? This society turns a blind eye to the many among uscw ith one. Myself included There is little funding for mental health and resources out there are flawed. I am without family as disowned and friendless too. My service dog is my companion. I am not violent but have been a victim on several occasions. I sustained a head injury from two car accidents. I have some cognitive problems such as with memory and do things slowly. It is hard living in a fast-paced society like this. For this reason I don't work full time but per diem. I give myself plenty of down time, listen to Christian music, attend support grouups on phone, see therapist, doctor for medicine. I experience stigma where I live where I have been called stupid, and crazy by mean, ignorant here. Mine is a lonely life. Keep to self.I have yet to get beyond this but live with it.People in the mainstream need to be more sesitive to those afflicted like myself rather than dismissing us. Everyone has talent. For me, I think I am a good writer. I am not ashamed of what has happened to me. I just wish others could see my gifts besides weaknesses! I believe everyone with a mental health issue needs a case manager who visits the home. Getting a cup of Jo, taking a walk would be more effective than endless counseling sessions with a lonely, depressed individual. I know as am one. Many of us are not fortunate as you as lack community support. As for working, people with depression, anxiety can work but less hours, less stressful jobs,have time outs, work for companies who have hired disabled before, have staff sympathetic to this. Hiring disabled as volunteers. with support is another option to get us out of shadows of our homes into the light of day. Currently I don't as am expected to act like norm or get laughed at, talked of until leave. What is needed is small successes instead of contless social failures, rejection. Perhaps then, there would be a change in this country. We need to deal with people with this humanely as a people and not with callousness show each other. We have become a me, tech, quick, isolated, lonely people. More and more have anxiety, depression, especially elderly as have noone who cares. While they don't pick up guns and kill others, more needs to be done to avoid this. There were signs he was in trouble. They were ignored with indifference as not our problem. The reality is this is everyone's issue.