Friday, June 12, 2009

The cost of mental illness

Steven Johns is dead. James von Brunn shot him. For no reason, other than his own issues.

In today’s AP article, von Brunn is described as spending decades spewing rants, diatribes and hate. Do you need any more red flags? Was there any doubt that he was a head case?

Johns’ mother described him as a teddy bear. What price of mental illness treatment would’ve exceeded his value?

The cost of mental illness isn’t in treating it. It’s in not treating it.

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