Understanding and Compassion: Essential Ingredients to Mental Health Reform - by Paul Heroux - HuffPo

Chris Engel 1/2/134:40 PM

"Any serious discussion of mental health reform must not scare people away from seeking treatment. On Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012 the NBC program Meet the Press, NRA CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre repeatedly called people afflicted or suffering from mental illness who may do harm "lunatics." This view is so completely out of touch with what it means to be a person suffering from a mental illness that Mr. LaPierre made his point of view and that of the NRA irrelevant to any mental health advocacy and reform in America.

"First, we have to stop referring to the afflicted as "the mentally ill." They are people just like you or I, only they are people who are afflicted with an illness...."

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