Pandya Anand
Anand Pandya, MD: Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
J Psychiatr Pract. 2013 Sep;19(5):410-2. doi: 10.1097/01.pra.0000435040.75802.90.
Mass shootings, such as the 2012 Newtown massacre, have repeatedly led to political discourse about limiting access to guns for individuals with serious mental illness. Although the political climate after such tragic events poses a considerable challenge to mental health advocates who wish to minimize unsympathetic portrayals of those with mental illness, such media attention may be a rare opportunity to focus attention on risks of victimization of those with serious mental illness and barriers to obtaining psychiatric care. Current federal gun control laws may discourage individuals from seeking psychiatric treatment and describe individuals with mental illness using anachronistic, imprecise, and gratuitously stigmatizing language. This article lays out potential talking points that may be useful after future gun violence.
大规模枪击事件，比如2012年纽敦枪击惨案，屡屡引发关于限制严重精神疾病患者获取枪支的政治讨论。尽管此类悲剧事件后的政治氛围给那些希望尽量减少对精神疾病患者冷漠描述的心理健康倡导者带来了巨大挑战，但这种媒体关注可能是一个难得的契机，可借此将注意力集中在严重精神疾病患者遭受伤害的风险以及获得精神科护理的障碍上。现行联邦枪支管制法律可能会阻碍个人寻求精神治疗，且使用过时、不准确且无端污名化的语言来描述精神疾病患者。本文列出了未来发生枪支暴力事件后可能有用的潜在谈话要点。
