Saturday 27 February 2010: Apocalyptic Scene
Another apocalyptic image today....imagine this is 2020 and we haven't done anything about climate change (except that the sea level is too low)...
...on the other hand maybe it's just sympotamitc of the greed that built the flats...
We went to see 'The Princess and the Frog' this morning....it was....OK, enjoyable. I cynically remarked that Disney didn't make an African American hero until after Obama's election, and she had very Hispanic eyes and spent most of the film as a lithe green frog....
I will be interested to see this documentary, Why Did You Kill My Dad? which is showing on Monday night on BBC 2. I really hope it isn't waht it appears to be...another Jonathan Zito style call for people with mental illness to be restricted.
Fact still remains that even if the number of himicides committed by people with mental health problems were to be higher than reported, people with mental health problems remain profoundly more likely to be victims.
You are more likely to win the lottery than you are to be killed by a mentally ill stranger.
One in four people have a mental health problem at some point in their lives. If the measure of 'homicide by person with a mental disoirdr' includes anyone who has received psychiatric care within 12 months of the incident, then that covers so many people that there are bound to be confounding variables...people who recover can still lose their rags, get drunk, any of the other appalling tragedies that happen when people end up taking another's life without it being attributable to a symptom of their mental ill health.
The other thing that bugs me is that it refers to multiple homicides by people with mental health problems. This is an extremely rare occurence, and in general it is one tragedy, one enquiry, one perpetrator...why do they need to raise this issue when the 'schizo with the sword at Sainsbury's' is such a fear inducing image in people's minds.
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