“I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother” Sparks Debate About Mental Health
Although there have been plenty of discussions about gun control, what about the topic of taking a closer look at mental health issues?
In the wake of the tragedy that took the lives of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a blogger from across the country was arguably the first to break through the noise and galvanize a debate around mental health. Liza Long’s blog post about raising a mentally ill child, “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother,” talks about her experiences raising her 13-year-old son, whom she describes as a gifted but unpredictable child who has threatened to kill her and himself. As she put it, “I love my son. But he terrifies me." Her blog post quickly went viral, got picked up by the The Huffington Post and others, earned a million likes on Facebook, and led to Long's appearance on CNN to talk about the way mental illness…
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Ken
5:00 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
This sounds an awful lot like what Ive been saying. I spent a few days last week in Sandy Hook. Could I find someone that thought the guns were the problem? Definitely ! The vast majority thought the mental issue was the main problem. There are some that respond to what I have posted that want nothing more than to argue. they take part of what you say and add their ending to it. One example of … more ›