<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sunil,<div><br></div><div>You know that statistically, one in three Americans has some type of mental illness, so what I do is when I'm in a crowd, I look to my left, and then to my right, and if those two folks look OK,</div><div>then I know it's me *S*</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 5, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">What Utter Crap.<br><br>"<font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Treatment is fine and necessary but there should also be some penalty for the lack of responsibility in not seeking treatment/mitigation before the mental illness progresses so far that control is lost."<br><br>What personal responsibility do you expect to be exercised by a person who is losing his or her mind?<br><br>You think he should recognize the signs that he's losing his mind WHILE HE'S LOSING HIS MIND?<br><br>Maybe you come to this remarkable conclusion having spent a significant amount of time working with mentally ill people. Maybe you have the training and expertise to conclude that they are able to exercise reason while their minds are disintegrating.<br><br>Does this expertise extend to people with no prior diagnosis? With no prior experience of the symptoms and conditions? Who may not even realize that something is wrong?<br><br>Yeah, the mentally ill have it too friggin' easy. Let's penalize them for lacking the foresight to responsibly deal with terrifying symptoms, while they're lost in their own heads.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I just knew you were going to post something like this when I saw Tom Hansen's post. Like clockwork, just like clockwork.<br></font><br>Sunil<br><hr id="stopSpelling">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:01:05 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity<br><br><div><font size="2">I agree with Tom.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><div><font size="2">At what point when a person sees that not all is right does it become ethical to seek help. That's what personal responsibility is about. I hope that the insanity defense laws will be changed to reflect that responsibility.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><div><font size="2">Treatment is fine and necessary but there should also be some penalty for the lack of responsibility in not seeking treatment/mitigation before the mental illness progresses so far that control is lost.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><div><font size="2">W.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: 0% 0%; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="thansen@moscow.com" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:12 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity</div><div><br></div>Courtesy of the Daily News.<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Noble found not guilty due to temporary insanity<br>May 5, 2010, 3:57 pm<br><br>Dan Noble was found not guilty of two counts of vehicular assault and two<br>counts of hit and run in Whitman County Superior Court on Wednesday.<br><br>Judge David Frazier ruled that Noble was temporarily insane during the<br>Dec. 9 incident, in which he ran over two Washington State University<br>students with his car on the WSU campus in Pullman.<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Perhaps now Mr. Noble can get the help necessary to prevent this from ever<br>happening again.<br><br>Although Mr. Noble's temporary loss of self-control was the major<br>contributing factor in this incidents, I still feel that preventive<br>measures should have been taken to avoid this from happening.<br><br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br><br>- Unknown<br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</blockquote>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>