Op-Ed by an anonymous Mental Health Professional practicing in Idaho. Below is a letter written to some conservative legislators during this last session. It was written and given anonymously with the “ask” to read it into the record either during a committee hearing or during floor debate on House Bill 71. To our knowledge, that […]
Mental health problems in youth were rarely heard of during the 1950’s and 60’s. There was no rash of suicides plaguing families, kids cutting on their bodies, or an abundance of psychiatric facilities. The development of different psychiatric medications began to explode in the late 1980’s and 1990’s. Since that time, with more medications being […]
Just about every mass shooting that has taken place in the past twenty years, along with many instances of isolated shootings and suicide, inconveniently share one thing in common. No, it’s not guns. The evidence is overwhelming: and points to the single biggest common denominator in all of these shootings, all of the perpetrators were […]