Most Schizophrenics are NOT Dangerous
..and another repost from facebook:
Schizophrenics are NOT dangerous
March 9, 2014 at 10:30pm
i really get annoyed about a lot of people's ignorance about schizophrenia.
my best beloved and several friends roommates etc. are schizophrenic.
when Other People find out i live with someone who is schizophrenic, they say all this krap about how they worry about me and are concerned for my safety.
but when they find out i go to parties or bars alone at night, they aren't concerned for my safety. when i do electrical repairs at my home they aren't concerned for my safety. if they know i drink a lot they aren't concerned for my safety. if they know about/meet a roommate of mine who is really nice & cheerful & helps me a lot around the house, they aren't concerned for my safety.
but then, if they find out that nice roommate is schizophrenic, suddenly they are concerned about my safety.
what rot. so fkn bogus grr.
most schizophrenic people are NOT dangerous.
here's something: if it was a common ocurrance for "crazy" people to berserk and kill a bunch of people, it wouldn't be front page news, same as if, say, airplanes often crashed. it would be a little article on page 4 maybe, not on the front page. people going berserk is a rare thing, and even if you see several stories over the space of a year about mass killers, think about what per cent of the population those represent.
there are roughly 300 million people in the u.s.
see: average current u.s. population: https://www.census.gov/popclock/
about 1% of the u.s. population suffer from schizophrenia, roughly 3 million people out of 300 million people.
see: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml#Schizophrenia
in the past 10 - 20 years, there were about 30 mass killings per year, not all perpetrated by schizophrenics.
but if you assumed all of them were schizophrenics, that's 30 people going berserk out of 3 million schizophrenic people. that comes out to about .001%
see: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/dec/17/mass-multiple-murder-rates-constant-despite-overal/
there were 16,259 homicides in 2010, certainly not all committed by schizophrenics, remember there is domestic violence, gang killings, botched robberies, etc.
see: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
but let's just pretend nobody ever murders anybody except schizophrenics. then you would have roughly 16,000 murderers out of roughly 3,000,000 schizophrenics. that comes out to about 0.5% of schizophrenics (or if you figure 16,000 murders per 300 million u.s. population, that's .005% of the general population that committed murder. which is more accurate.)
here is some information about schizophrenia:
"People with schizophrenia are not usually violent. In fact, most violent crimes are not committed by people with schizophrenia."
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml?utm_source=publish2&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=www.kpbs.org
quit assuming people with schizophrenia are violent.
wake up and find out some facts.
don't condemn perfectly nice innocent people just because they have a certain label.
get educated.
get over it.
Schizophrenics are NOT dangerous
March 9, 2014 at 10:30pm
i really get annoyed about a lot of people's ignorance about schizophrenia.
my best beloved and several friends roommates etc. are schizophrenic.
when Other People find out i live with someone who is schizophrenic, they say all this krap about how they worry about me and are concerned for my safety.
but when they find out i go to parties or bars alone at night, they aren't concerned for my safety. when i do electrical repairs at my home they aren't concerned for my safety. if they know i drink a lot they aren't concerned for my safety. if they know about/meet a roommate of mine who is really nice & cheerful & helps me a lot around the house, they aren't concerned for my safety.
but then, if they find out that nice roommate is schizophrenic, suddenly they are concerned about my safety.
what rot. so fkn bogus grr.
most schizophrenic people are NOT dangerous.
here's something: if it was a common ocurrance for "crazy" people to berserk and kill a bunch of people, it wouldn't be front page news, same as if, say, airplanes often crashed. it would be a little article on page 4 maybe, not on the front page. people going berserk is a rare thing, and even if you see several stories over the space of a year about mass killers, think about what per cent of the population those represent.
there are roughly 300 million people in the u.s.
see: average current u.s. population: https://www.census.gov/popclock/
about 1% of the u.s. population suffer from schizophrenia, roughly 3 million people out of 300 million people.
see: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml#Schizophrenia
in the past 10 - 20 years, there were about 30 mass killings per year, not all perpetrated by schizophrenics.
but if you assumed all of them were schizophrenics, that's 30 people going berserk out of 3 million schizophrenic people. that comes out to about .001%
see: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/dec/17/mass-multiple-murder-rates-constant-despite-overal/
there were 16,259 homicides in 2010, certainly not all committed by schizophrenics, remember there is domestic violence, gang killings, botched robberies, etc.
see: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
but let's just pretend nobody ever murders anybody except schizophrenics. then you would have roughly 16,000 murderers out of roughly 3,000,000 schizophrenics. that comes out to about 0.5% of schizophrenics (or if you figure 16,000 murders per 300 million u.s. population, that's .005% of the general population that committed murder. which is more accurate.)
here is some information about schizophrenia:
"People with schizophrenia are not usually violent. In fact, most violent crimes are not committed by people with schizophrenia."
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml?utm_source=publish2&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=www.kpbs.org
quit assuming people with schizophrenia are violent.
wake up and find out some facts.
don't condemn perfectly nice innocent people just because they have a certain label.
get educated.
get over it.