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Men's Health surveyed American male gun owners on their mental health. The results range from anger, fear, violence, connection, tradition, protection, safety.
Americans own about 400 million guns — with the lack of registration and a thriving black market, we don’t even have an accurate accounting. The restrictions could, however, deprive some law ...
Many of the symptoms initially experienced by people with CSR are effects of an extended activation of the human body's fight-or-flight response. The fight-or-flight response involves a general sympathetic nervous system discharge in reaction to a perceived stressor and prepares the body to fight or run from the threat causing the stress.
Linda Blackford: After two political assassination attempts, a school shooting in Georgia and an attempted mass murder on I-75, Kentucky and the nation must do something.
A 2015 review found that in the United States, about 4% of violence is attributable to people diagnosed with mental illness, [239] and a 2014 study found that 7.5% of crimes committed by mentally ill people were directly related to the symptoms of their mental illness. [240] The majority of people with serious mental illness are never violent ...
The Lunacy Act 1845 was a landmark in the treatment of the mentally ill, as it explicitly changed the status of mentally ill people to patients who required treatment. The Act created the Lunacy Commission , headed by Lord Shaftesbury , focusing on reform of the legislation concerning lunacy. [ 21 ]
The Senate voted Wednesday to nullify part of a gun control bill that keeps severely mentally ill people from buying guns.
Intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or episodic dyscontrol syndrome (EDS), is a mental and behavioral disorder characterized by explosive outbursts of anger or violence, often to the point of rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand (e.g., impulsive shouting, screaming, or excessive reprimanding triggered by relatively inconsequential events).