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U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence
(theintercept.com)
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I don't think the main violent threat is in people who do take their medicine in time and care about their mental health.
It's like the ex-Soviet countries where people who've never been to a psychiatrist and never allowed thought that something may be off with them are proud of that, cause they are "normal" or something. As if having a condition was something shameful, or even transferring via personal contacts.
I mean, that aside, people with most developed and mature and intelligent personality I've met all didn't ignore their mental health and took medicine and probably had a D or two.
Statistically people with no condition from DSM are just over 4% of the population. That's the absolute minority.
Plus, even rationally it doesn't make sense. Even if it is shameful to have a mental disorder, pretending you don't have it will most likely make it worse (and hence more shameful) than if you accepted it and got treatment.
If we are talking about ex-USSR, the very popular among ignorami there idea of mental disorders is that these are not genetic like albinism, but something infectious like HIV, or a conspiracy by psychiatrists, or some other crap.
It's stigma combined with fear. Well, and also the fact that in USSR only people with really debilitating conditions, like schizophrenia in full cognitive decline stage, would be hospitalized, and usually forcibly. And, of course, another category of patients - political dissidents diagnosed with a specifically invented type of schizophrenia to lock them up.
EDIT: Ah, and also that weird idea that people with mental conditions are always in everything less intelligent than people without those. Say, when you are autistic, people often outright refuse to understand what you say, until met with reality. References to stoicism or common ideas that Einstein or some Roman emperors or someone else very probably were autistic, or, say, Anthony Hopkins, and who not, - these are all in wain until they retrospectively see you were right.