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[Andraste_Reborn]

For some cases the auditory hallucinations can cause someone to become violent to the point of committing murder. This is why we have forensic psychiatric hospitals that was design for people unable to stand trial due to severe mental illness.

 

 

Sure, mental illness can sometimes be a factor in violent criminal behavior. However, the vast majority of mentall ill people are not violent criminals, and even those of us suffering from a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia are only marginally more likely to commit violent crimes than people that aren't. Most mentally ill people who commit violent crimes are also abusing alcohol and/or other drugs - turns out being high as a kite and/or really drunk is a more serious risk factor than hallucinations are. So is being a man aged eighteen to thirty, for that matter. Here, have another link and also another one.

 

I feel the need to point this out when I see people making correlations between hallucinations and violent behaviour because, lemme tell you, it is really !@#$ing exasperating to have people treat you as dangerous just because you're sick. Most of us are only a danger to ourselves. (This stereotype can also lead to violence against the mentally ill. I'm a middle-class white woman so I probably don't need to worry about somebody shooting me because I'm having a bad brain day, but unfortunately that's not true for everyone.)

[Sifr]

 

I feel the need to point this out when I see people making correlations between hallucinations and violent behaviour because, lemme tell you, it is really !@#$ing exasperating to have people treat you as dangerous just because you're sick. Most of us are only a danger to ourselves. (This stereotype can also lead to violence against the mentally ill. I'm a middle-class white woman so I probably don't need to worry about somebody shooting me because I'm having a bad brain day, but unfortunately that's not true for everyone.)

 

For those often on the autistic spectrum, having a panic-attack is already frightening enough to have to deal with, but it's worse when the people around you fail to fully understand what's going on or how to help you calm down.

 

Especially should they fail to realise the reason why you might have lashed out at them, for something as simply as placing a hand on your arm to calm you down. While that level of physical contact might normally be something an autistic person may be comfortable with (depending on where they are on the spectrum it can vary though), panic attacks pretty much mean your fight-or-flight instincts have pretty much taken over and everything is being perceived with fear, suspicion, or as a potential attack.

 

I'm on the high-functioning end myself, so aside from a tad eccentricity (which is hardly a bad thing) people don't always assume I'm autistic. Unfortunately, it makes the (thankfully rare) severe panic attacks I have even worse... especially should they happen in the presence of people I know, which I dread, lest it shock them with just how fast I shift from quirky-but-nice, to obviously symptomatic.

 

As Andraste_Reborn pointed out, often people with mental health issues direct things inwards, such as their anger or frustration, making them far more to be a danger to themselves rather than others. Remember the scene in Liar, Liar  where Jim Carrey decides to vent his frustration (and try to get out of court) by taking it out on himself? It's kind of like that... but y'know, not meant to be funny.

 

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(Sorry, that scene always makes me laugh and we desperately needed some levity to end on)