Day 10 Date: 5/24/22
It was a sad day because of the tragedy in the USA. Honestly, the whole situation gives me a lot of anxiety about the state of our world. The first thing we start hearing about when there's a gunman is mental illness, which is far from the actual issue.
An issue of labeling the gunman as someone mentally ill is that it paints the mentally as the root cause. The stigma behind mental illness is already so strong that it prevents people from finding help.
I suffer from mental illness, I have CPTSD aka Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, and it's from a very traumatic childhood and various events in my life.
Here is a helpful link:
These tragedies appear more like domestic terrorism, but our political parties avoid that label. So to group me with someone who decided to kill 19 children and two adults doesn't seem to explain why the situation happened. The guy was young, and according to the reports, he wrote out his plan before he did it; planning isn't constant with someone who suddenly lost control. I have to refocus and come back to write another day.
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