Comments on: Carlsbad firefighters learn about mental illness http://thecoastnews.com/2009/03/carlsbad-firefighters-learn-about-mental-illness/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Harold A. Maio http://thecoastnews.com/2009/03/carlsbad-firefighters-learn-about-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-6530 Harold A. Maio Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:44:56 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=37421#comment-6530 “This training will give people more empathy and understanding towards dealing with ‘the’ mentally ill.”

“The” mentally ill is misleading. It leads to much misunderstanding, as did “the” Blacks, and “the” Jews.

The reailty is of course that we succeed at about the same rate as other apsects of society and are as unlikely to have contact with law enforcement as they.

Harold A. Maio, khmaio@earthlink.net

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