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How people using #mentalhealth as an excuse for their actions is a damn disgrace. · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  It's always interesting how in a society that we're kinda like
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  in, it always seems to be more excuses for everything than
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  actual rationale pie things. Now that might be understanding
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  the point, but let me all let me tell you all rather something
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  about why mental health, mental illness has given people
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  unfortunately too much for free pass.
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  And look, if you're thinking I'm referring to that, that woman I
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  believe up in Massachusetts or Maine, believe me, I'm not even
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  going there. I'll let that case play itself
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  out. But I'm just talking more or
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  less in the general sense. Why is it that nowadays people
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  use mental health or mental illness as an excuse?
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  Now take it from a guy who probably it's still dealing with
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  mental illness or mental health issues rather even today, and
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  I'm sure you all are probably dealing with the same thing as
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  well. I think it's fair to say that
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  anyone who's ever gone through it or still going through it,
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  they'll never be fully recovered by it.
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  Yet it doesn't give really any slight of an legitimate reason
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  as to why people do unspeakable things.
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  Now, you can attribute that as far as why they do crimes and
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  all that, you can attribute that to, you know, a variety of
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  things, whether they've been suffering through depression, in
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  some cases, PTSD, tragic loss of, you know, loved ones over a
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  long period of time, whatever the case may be, it seems as if
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  everyone at one point or another that's going through something
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  of that match. But it doesn't give us an excuse
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  to commit crimes. So why is it that people, you
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  know, fortunately this is what society is right now, have used
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  mental health as a clutch to give people a pass.
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  It's, it's like in a way, coming to the defense of somebody when
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  they commit a crime, regardless if they're dealing with mental
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  health issues or not. And I'll be upfront about this.
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  I never even thought for a moment about doing something so
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  unspeakable that I would potentially hurt others.
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  If I had even gone that route, I would have took myself out first
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  before I even thought of putting anyone that I'd loved at risk.
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  But I never for one moment considered, uh, taking all those
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  lies just for the sake of it, of my health, mental health issues.
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  The long and short of it is there was no excuse as to making
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  justifications for mental health, tying into why people
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  commit crimes ultimately. Now look, do every case kind of
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  varies from different circumstances?
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  Absolutely. I mean, I'm not going to be
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  oblivious to say that. And you know what?
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  Some actually do need help. You know, some actually do need
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  to be in a psych ward mental hospital because they actually
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  do need Richard and help. But then you have those who
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  ultimately look for a way to justify quote UN quote mental
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  health as an excuse. Again, notwithstanding the one
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  particular case in Massachusetts or Maine.
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  But that's why you can't really take people at the word, because
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  there's always a motivation for why people do things.
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  Because, you know, under that facade, I was supposed to say in
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  the sense like the old saying, wolf in sheep's clothing, that
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  more so applies in this sense. Again, there are reasons for
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  some things in life, but most of the time there is no legitimate
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  excuse to give somebody a pass because of the mental health
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  problems. Unless it was that diet.
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  But more of the story, if you need help for your mental health
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  problems, get help. You know, I'm still doing it
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  today as we speak now, I'm so plenty of you are doing the same
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  thing, but the one thing you cannot do is resort to crimes
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  and then try to use it as a justification.
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  And you can pretty much see why society is where it's at right
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  now because there's always something behind that gives
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  people, for whatever reason, the quick judgement to come to
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  somebody's defense. But even the accused knows they
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  did the crime. But like I said, if you're going
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  to if you want help more so don't wait until you were sought
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  to dangerous tactics because by then it'll be far too late and
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  you ultimately will suffer the if you're going to get help
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  today, just get help and don't wait until another moment.
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  If you're going to prioritize really getting help for
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  yourself, it would be wise for you to do it now and take care
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  of yourself in the long term. We all go do different things in
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  life, so just learn to take care of yourself.