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Monday, October 15, 2012

Mental Illness rarely leads to violence

Here's a short 2 mins follow up clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9wxybpy3NU

Dr. Sylvia Gearing talks about how the real danger is not mental illness; it's drug or alcohol abuse.

The only mental illness which increases the risk of violence is paranoid thinking, but only when the paranoia has reached the point of psychosis (complete loss of contact with reality).

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