The headline is misleading. One in twenty deaths are due to mental illness. Alcohol is the symptom, not the cause.
Good point. Cheers!
We seem these days to attribute anything other than a stellar and straight life to mental illness: crime, poor health choices and outcomes, etc.
I think we’ve taken that explanation way too far—which contributes to our being way over-medicated.
Except that those maimed or killed by a drunk driver were not necessarily mentally ill.
“The headline is misleading. One in twenty deaths are due to mental illness. Alcohol is the symptom, not the cause.”
Correct. Addiction is self medication, not a moral failing, a symptom of emotional pain or mental illness.
Thank you