All the time I see these extravagant programs for Veterans with PTSD, or any other ailment they might have…
What about regular people…there are more non-militants in America that suffer from mental illnesses. About 1 in 3 to 1 in 4 adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder or disease in a given year. This amounts to about 70-80 million people out there alone and helpless. According to records, about 8% of American citizens will develop PTSD sometime during their lives. In 2005, 1.77 million American males committed suicide. 450,000 American females committed suicide.
There is little to no help for people in this situation, and I don’t even understand why. People who commit suicide due to this are met with fucking harsh comments. Oh, he was selfish. He didn’t think about how it would affect others. How dare he.
HOW DARE YOU! America is too fucking stupid to even pay attention to what is happening. They’re too busy worrying about ways to fix the economy (and ultimately making it worse) to worry about its citizens. Yea, big whoop. You give vets some programs. I’m actually happy for them, but what about the rest of us? You just stand by and let millions of Americans kill themselves a year, and no one ever gives a second thought. You never hear anyone in the news killing themselves unless it’s someone rich. But GOD FORBID when some Mexican shoots a fucking black kid WE HAVE TO HAVE IT ON THE FUCKING NEWS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY FOR A FUCKING YEAR.
I actually feel sympathy for these people who go shoot up places then kill themselves. They deserve some fucking attention. Yea, I feel bad for the people who die, but instead of the message getting through that they need HELP, we get some dumbass message that THEY WERE EVIL.
It pisses me off. End rant.
No wonder we have such a broken country. Nobody cares.
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America doesnt give a fuck thats why everything is fucked up now…..I agree 100%
Yep, it’s the american way to blame all the problems on “they were evil.”
But i don’t think you’re right about the problem being “that no one cares.” I think it’s more that most people care about the wrong things, and do not understand how to care about the right things, or even how to appropriately form valid expectations of life, based on the reality we’re all taught not to perceive.
But some of us can’t help but to see it anyway, and it changes us, and makes us incompatible with “the american way,” which then gets us shunned, ostracized, cast away.
It’s all so goddamn futile.
But i’m alive and it bothers me, so i try anyway… because i know “if i want something done right, i must do it myself…” because i can’t trust anyone to do the right thing… or even understand reality, for that matter. If i don’t try to change things, who will?