Misinformation Does Not Help Anyone

Misinformation does not help anyone regardless of the good intentions.  I saw this meme on LinkIn and my comment is below…

 

This  may be true for some mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. It would also be true to say many mental illnesses have a no fault genetic predisposition. However, many mental illnesses do have fault… Not necessarily with the person suffering from the illness… Perhaps their parents, foster parents, spouse, a stranger or a situation out of their control… But someone is often to blame for the expression of the genetic predisposition… This is called epigenetics. This “there are no losers, everyone is a winner, no one is to blame” attitude is part of the reason for the spike in suicides and drug usage in America.

Book Review: “Myths of Suicide” by Thomas Joiner

on November 26, 2011
I was amazed when I glanced at the other reviews left for this book… I was wondering if we read the same book. I found this book to be a meandering boring collection of anecdotal dreck. The author clearly is trying to understand his fathers and grandfathers suicides… perhaps they read his book. I would not recommend this book to anyone except perhaps an insomniac out of Valium.

Book Review: “The Suicidal Mind” by Edwin S. Shneidman

Richard D. Cole

July 16, 2018

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