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Not. The. Onion.
http://www.greenvillegazette.com/fb/texas-governor-vetoes-mental-health-bill-because-he-doesnt-believe-mental-illness-is-real-5/
Governor Abbott has recently vetoed a bipartisan bill which would give more resources to medical professionals that help residents dealing with mental health problems. The bill in question was widely popular, supported by many large medical associations in the state and both political parties.
Instead, Abbott killed the bill after receiving information from a Scientology group which believes that mental illnesses are a myth and that treating them causes more harm than good for the patients. Scientology, based on the writings of its founder L. Ron Hubbard, is strongly opposed to psychiatry in all its form and even compares mental health professionals to terrorists in some of its publications.
One of the reasons why the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the group run by Scientologists, opposed the bill is because it contained a provision that would have prevented patients from refusing mental health care if they were determined by physicians to be a danger to themselves or to others.
Maybe there's a Scientology group which believes that his disability is a myth.
malaise
(267,812 posts)Response to malaise (Reply #1)
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Absolutely correct assessment IMHO as a Texan.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)blogslut
(37,955 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)\
Perry was so dumb I don't think he could use toilet paper w/o iKEA-style instructions on each sheet.
gohuskies
(1,153 posts)He's an insane right-wing loony that is proof of mental illness.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I wonder if Gov. Abbott's tort lawsuit, the one that got him all that money, included a claim for mental anguish or distress, and how much of the judgment or settlement was allocated to that condition, which Gov. Abbott now believes to be a myth?
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)There is no mental illness in Texas, Texas is mental illness.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)I'm told many people who suffer mental illnesses share that disbelief and self denial.
procon
(15,805 posts)Color me skeptical, but it sounds like a weak excuse for Texas to avoid paying the cost of provide treatment for their citizens in need. They already do it with workers comp, and women's health, and childrens programs, and medicaid, and the ACA, so why not oppose mental health care too.
Rex
(65,616 posts)No wonder he cannot admit to mental health issues being real...it would require he ask himself a few choice questions.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)riversedge
(69,721 posts)science or medicine. We have congress folks who are letting our mother Earth go to ruin because they do not believe in science.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)you hopeless piece of monkeyshit. Take a GOOD LONG LOOK.
What the FUCK is it with Texas repukes?
ETA - an ELECTED OFFICIAL is listening to fucking SCIENTOLOGISTS???? We are in far deeper shit than I thought.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Why doesn't he just get up and walk?
Mental illness is as real as his disability.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)My point exactly.
Vinca
(50,170 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)since Little Boots ousted Ann Richards.
Clearly, a majority of Texas VOTERS (not all Texans) are dribbling morons who need help tying their shoes and remembering to use the toilet and not the cat's litter box,.