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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:50 PM Oct 2015

Texas Governor Vetoes Mental Health Bill Because He Doesn’t Believe Mental Illness Is Real

Not. The. Onion.

http://www.greenvillegazette.com/fb/texas-governor-vetoes-mental-health-bill-because-he-doesnt-believe-mental-illness-is-real-5/

Even though Rick Perry has received his fair share of criticism for his actions as Governor of Texas, there are some believe that his successor, Greg Abbott, has revealed himself to have even “crazier” ideas. Examples include appointing someone who was homeschooled by Christian parents to oversee the state’s public education system and organizing the state’s guard troops to ensure that president Obama doesn’t “invade” Texas during recent military exercises. A recent investigation has uncovered an even more troubling action on Abbott’s part: shaping medical policy based on advice from Scientologists.

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.
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Texas Governor Vetoes Mental Health Bill Because He Doesn’t Believe Mental Illness Is Real (Original Post) KamaAina Oct 2015 OP
That would force him to acknowledge that he is bat shit crazy n/t malaise Oct 2015 #1
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #3
+2 hamsterjill Oct 2015 #12
"Greg Abbott is Rick Perry without the intelligence and charm"-JuanitaJean. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #2
^this^ blogslut Oct 2015 #14
A thought at which the mind truly shrivels. hifiguy Oct 2015 #16
Abbot is proof that mental illness is real gohuskies Oct 2015 #4
Now I have to wonder gratuitous Oct 2015 #5
Cow towing to nutburger scientologists won't go over well with the fundies. eom MohRokTah Oct 2015 #6
Texas is always justifying Norway's opinion. Downwinder Oct 2015 #7
He Doesn’t Believe Mental Illness Is Real Hayduke Bomgarte Oct 2015 #8
It seems like living in Texas can cause mental illness. procon Oct 2015 #9
Wow...the guy just keeps sinking deeper and deeper into insanity. Rex Oct 2015 #10
Texas has gone full potato. backscatter712 Oct 2015 #11
Enough. There should be law against politiicians who do not believe in riversedge Oct 2015 #13
Look deeply into the mirror hifiguy Oct 2015 #15
This guy is in a wheelchair right? panader0 Oct 2015 #17
He is indeed. KamaAina Oct 2015 #20
If anyone should know mental illness it's a governor of Texas. Vinca Oct 2015 #18
They've had nothing but inbred half-wits hifiguy Oct 2015 #19

Response to malaise (Reply #1)

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
16. A thought at which the mind truly shrivels.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:23 PM
Oct 2015

\
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)
4. Abbot is proof that mental illness is real
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:16 PM
Oct 2015

He's an insane right-wing loony that is proof of mental illness.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Now I have to wonder
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:18 PM
Oct 2015

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?

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
7. Texas is always justifying Norway's opinion.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:19 PM
Oct 2015

There is no mental illness in Texas, Texas is mental illness.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
8. He Doesn’t Believe Mental Illness Is Real
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:23 PM
Oct 2015

I'm told many people who suffer mental illnesses share that disbelief and self denial.

procon

(15,805 posts)
9. It seems like living in Texas can cause mental illness.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:31 PM
Oct 2015

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)
10. Wow...the guy just keeps sinking deeper and deeper into insanity.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 04:41 PM
Oct 2015

No wonder he cannot admit to mental health issues being real...it would require he ask himself a few choice questions.

riversedge

(69,721 posts)
13. Enough. There should be law against politiicians who do not believe in
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:15 PM
Oct 2015

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)
15. Look deeply into the mirror
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:20 PM
Oct 2015

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)
17. This guy is in a wheelchair right?
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:37 PM
Oct 2015

Why doesn't he just get up and walk?
Mental illness is as real as his disability.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
19. They've had nothing but inbred half-wits
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:47 PM
Oct 2015

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,.

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