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I have a friend who has bipolar. They’ve been committed 3 times, twice voluntary, once by force. They’re diagnosed, medicated and 99.9% of the time function normally. They’re raising a family, very well educated, have a full time job etc. but they have flare ups triggered usually by stress which...

At his place of work. Assaulted 2 colleagues and had to be tasered to be arrested. Also being reported that the police bullshitted to the family and told them that he was of no fixed abode which is why they couldn’t track him down. Turns out he had a permanent address and was known to be living...

Yeah I understand that and in their position I dare say I’d feel the same at this moment in time. Other than the what he’s been sentenced for though I’m not sure that the outcome of his sentencing would be any different.

This is really where you are stupid. I’m not defending anyone. I’ve not said anything that isn’t cold hard facts. If he’d been sectioned he’d have been in a secure mental health facility given his history of violence, essentially a prison. A support system was in place, that doesn’t mean it was...

I really don’t think that if he’d been found guilty of murder given his diagnosed mental health condition the final outcome of his incarceration would have been any different. He’s going to spend the rest of his life in a secure mental health facility having pleaded guilty to man slaughter by...

If he was capable of logical thinking he probably wouldn’t have had serious mental health issues in the first place. This really isn’t the gotcha you think it is. People who have serious mental health issues often don’t want help, getting help is often dependent on having the correct support...

1 in 100 people are diagnosed with schizophrenia, or 1% of the population if you want to look at another way. 1 in 6 will seek help for all mental illnesses in their lifetime. There’s also more than one condition linked to violence whether that’s upon yourself or others. Even things like OCD...

That was the first and only time I voted for Cameron and yes I regret it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68098177

I didn’t actually. I voted Clegg. Aside from that your retort was bang on.

Hold on. Are you suggesting that people with serious mental health issues don’t behave rationally? You should write to people who work in this field, I’m sure they’ll be flabbergasted by your observations. I’m fully aware that there was a warrant out for his arrest, I raised that point in the...

You don’t have to look hard to find videos of Trump talking gibberish. I’m not even talking about the content or context. I mean literally talking incomprehensible gibberish, non existent words, unable to pronounce very basic words, all over the place with nonsensical sentences etc etc. At...

So the only reason that you can possibly support Ukraine is because you’ve bought into another country’s propaganda. It can’t possibly be on a basic principle that if a country is invaded it has the right to defend itself and expel that invader. Presumably that door swings both ways and if you...

On the run? It was Nottingham police who issued the warrant, he never left Nottingham. Maybe you have a different definition of being on the run .

There was a warrant out for his arrest for months and the police never pursued it, it was even for assaulting a police officer. Not the sort of thing the police let slide. Are you seriously suggesting the political decision to cut police budgets and take 10,000 officers of the streets didn’t...

Presumably you oppose a trade deal with the US on the same principle.

Well with Trumps USA as part of the alliance who could stop them?

So a man who campaigned for Truss to be PM is trying to oust Sunak. I wonder which genius in the Tory ranks he believes is a better option than Sunak. Not that Sunak is a good option, just the best option in the pool that the Tories find themselves swimming in.

This is exactly why you have care in the community, it monitors things like meds, it identifies things like flare ups in the condition that leads to incidents like this with or without meds leading them to be committed for their own and others sake. Mental health is not the black and white issue...