mojo84 wrote:I think we all need to be careful about focusing in on the scary sounding words such as anxiety, depression, mood and intelligence etc. Those all come in varying degrees and not all degrees warrant the loss of someone's rights as not all degrees of the conditions cause one to be a danger to themselves or others.
We don't want to fall into the same type of trap as the media and be scared of all the scary black military automatic assault weapons with armor piercing bullets.
See what I did there?
yup, just because someone may be on medicine for anxiety or depression doesnt mean they are mentally ill...there is a large degree there to those diagnosis's. ex... under a lot of pressure at work, cant sleep, feel overwhelmed? Here's an antidepressant / anxiety prescription
having intense moodswings or suicidal thoughts and being prescribed medication is very different than being under stress and being prescribed medication. The medical industry prescribes these pills in very large volumes for a large variety of issues, just being on them doesnt mean its a danger.
at the end of the day as much as i'd like screening for mental illness (im talking true whackadoos here) I don't want the govt prying into peoples medical records.