Is it true that most criminals have some form of mental illness?!


Question: as if sane people never do bad things??


Answers: as if sane people never do bad things??

People w/o mental illnesses commit nearly all the crime in the country. Look at the prison stats if you really question this. Besides, ppl with serious mental illnesses (i.e. biological) only make up a small percentage of the population... not enough to fill up the prisons, and we all most definitely are not criminals.

Ironic that the mentally ill are by far the most frequent victims of violence. That little factoid seems lost on the general population. I guess it doesn't make for splashy reporting.

Ppl commit crimes due to greed, lust, power, control, revenge, more revenge, did I say revenge, need, cultural upbringing, desire, pride, ego, just because, you name it. Take a course in sociology. It would be enlightening.

Btw, Jackie is an ignorant fool.

This country was founded on Freedom...

That means you are free to choose Good or Evil...

Most criminals have some form of mental illness for sure and that chemical imbalance in the brain causes them to make decisions that are not in anyones best interest and not thought out at all. Most criminals are responsible for their actions because they had warnings and some were actually treated for their illness but for whatever reasons, decided to go off their meds. Some criminals on the other hand do not have mental illness and just does it for the excitement. Besides who determines what is sane and insane behavoir? Hope I answered your question.

No not at all. most are fine, but they plead insanity because they get a big break from it. It's a scam, and in reality it shouldn't be like that, cause they're normal, but just chose to be criminals.

I would guess that most crimanals are on drugs or something, which i don't think is considered a montal illness.

FIRST OF ALL. PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISORDERS ARE NOT CRIMINALS. that really really really offends me.

only 15% of all jails have inmates that have a mental disorder.
we are not killers, we are not rapists, we are not robbers.

we are NOT insane.
you're really ignorant.


look at you 'normal' people. cheat on your wives or husbands because you want more sex. priests molest/rape young boys. people are addicted to porn. parents like to touch their children. guys like to rape girls for power and authority. you people like to shoot other school mates because you don't like how a guy is a cross dresser [i think it was an 8th grader who shot the kid because of that in cali.] you rape/sodomize women and chop up their bodies. you put babies in microwaves because you are an extremist christian who thinks the baby is possessed.


none of which have been reported as having a mental disorder. to me, people like me with bipolar disorder and ADHD are the normal people. you people think you're so better than us. you take advantage of drugs and alcohol because you think you have it so rough because of stress. try living in a bipolar persons shoes. we manage just fine. it's ignorant people who causes people to commit suicide.


we aren't insane. 'normal' people are insane.

no total crap so if some one steels your car there Ill ya right

Schizophrenia is a group of psychotic disorders that interfere with thinking and responsiveness. It is a disease of the brain, just like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. The term schizophrenia, which means "split mind," was first used in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler to categorize patients whose thought processes and emotional responses seemed disconnected. Despite its name, the condition does not cause a split personality.

Schizophrenia is a group of psychotic disorders characterized by disturbances in perception, behavior, and communication that last longer than 6 months. (This includes psychotic behavior.) A person with schizophrenia has deteriorated occupational, interpersonal, and self-supportive abilities.

Schizophrenia is characterized by the following symptoms:

Delusions
Hallucinations
Disordered thinking
Emotional unresponsiveness
Because symptoms of schizophrenia arise from various physical processes and respond differently to treatments, some experts recommend classifying the disease based on the presence of the following symptom groups:

Negative symptoms (including apathy and social withdrawal)
Psychotic symptoms
Disordered thinking

Some experts group psychotic and disordered thinking into a single category called positive symptoms.

The disease is complicated by the fact that although a schizophrenic patient may have more than one symptom, he or she rarely has all of them. Symptoms also often go into remission.

The symptoms of cognitive impairment and disordered thinking may occur before other symptoms of schizophrenia. They include:

A lack of attention
Impaired information processing and an aberrant association between words and ideas. Sometimes this condition is so extreme that speech becomes incoherent and is referred to as "word salad." Patients may connect words because of similarity of sound, rather than by meaning, a condition known as "clang associations."
Memory impairment. In keeping with other aspects of disordered thinking, memory impairment in schizophrenia is likely to involve the inability to connect an event with its source into a complete and whole memory. For instance, a patient may recall and even feel a familiarity with a specific event but be unable to remember where, when, or how it took place.
Backward masking dysfunction. This is a trait in which a distraction causes a person to forget a preceding event. It might be an important symptom and a marker of schizophrenia even in people with normal working memories. One test to diagnose this trait uses four letters on a computer screen. The screen goes blank, and another image, called a masking stimulus, appears (such as four broken letter fragments). After viewing the images, the patient is asked to type in the original letters. Both symptomatic and presymptomatic patients commonly have problems with this particular exercise.
In summary, people with schizophrenia do poorly on mental tasks requiring conscious awareness such as verbal fluency, short-term and working memory, and processing speed. However, they are no worse than the general population in underlying (implicit) learning such as grammar skills, vocabulary, and spatial skills (such as map reading). Some experts believe that impaired verbal memory in schizophrenia is a consequence of depression and slowness, but not a result of the disease process.

Other Symptoms
People with schizophrenia may experience other symptoms such as intolerance of heat (often associated with antipsychotic medications) and a reduced sense of smell.

Criminal and mental illiness depending on indiviual interrupt into together or other half.Or one and the other is not present.

I disagree with jackie. The crime rate of any major city in the US is directly related to the unemployment rate. Less people with jobs=Higher crime rate. We will all be very familiar with this in the coming years! The VAST majority of people in prison are neither insane or even unintelligent. While drugs are usually involved in some way, you must look to the root of problems instead of just finding a quick and uninformed tagname, so that we can all be afraid of that particular evil, and have this newly named evil to blame for all of our problems.

I have been in prison. Ya there are alot of mental disorders. But the thing that I most found alarming. ( I was in a fifty man dorm) was how many letters i wrote for fellow inmates, who could not read or write. I also read there letters to them





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