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Violence and Mental Illness: Victims, Not Perpetrators

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Violence and Mental Illness: Victims, Not Perpetrators
By John M. Grohol, PsyD
As lawmakers across the country continue to pass ill-conceived laws implicating people with mental illness as having a greater penchant for violence (despite the scientific evidence that says otherwise), a new study has come out showing what most mental health advocates have long known. People with mental illness are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it

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http://psychcentral.com/blog/archive...-perpetrators/