"Here’s Why We Refuse To Meaningfully Talk About Mental Illness"

Everyone says we need to talk about mental illness. They especially say this after things like what happened last week at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon where a man began systematically shooting people, killing nine and injuring nine others before turning a gun on himself after being shot by police. But as much as everyone, from anonymous people on Twitter to presidential candidates, say we need to talk about mental illness, we won’t.