TheBanyanTree: Mental Illness Ain't No Picnic

[Monique Colver]

And many people are, and that's okay!

The response to this post has been overwhelming. Thank you everyone. Thank
you very much. It was also posted on OpenSalon, and one of the editors
emailed me today to ask if they could post it on Salon.com -- it'll be
edited a bit, but it'll be there, probably today sometime.

Monique

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu>wrote:

>
> Wow, I should look up before I hit send.  I thought I was only responding
> to Sally.  Sorry for posting political content.  And I was just teasing
> about my brother.  He does own an AK47, but he is not mentally ill.  He's
> just a gun and knife nut.
>
>
> Quoting Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu>:
>
>  Quoting Sally Larwood <larwos at optusnet.com.au>:
>>
>>  Getting back to the actual incident.  My husband keeps asking me what my
>>> American friends think about this latest incident.  Does it make more
>>> Americans think about the gun issue?
>>>
>>
>> I always think about the gun issue.  My brother is (mostly) mentally
>> stable.  Ok, he's fine, really. And he owns an AK-47.  Seriously?
>> But I think a lot more about the very deep philosophical divide in
>> this country and the hatred and hate speech that that foments.  I've
>> followed politics my whole life and I've never heard hate rhetoric
>> like I hear now.  Comments like putting someone in the "crosshairs"
>> has to stop.  It makes me sick.  Someone who speaks in a peaceful
>> way, like Jimmy Carter, who I always greatly admired as a peaceful
>> humanitarian and still do, can no longer make it in politics.  When a
>> well known politico says things like "How's that hopey-changey thing
>> working out for you?" it makes me sick.  I still hope for change, and
>> a lot of other things.
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Monique Colver