Stranger Than Most

by SUSAN LAUTZ, LPC

For the past few weeks I’ve been writing about nothing but my cancer challenge and I’m frankly sick of it. In my own defense, however, I did this so that I didn’t have to repeat the same story over and over to clients, family and friends.  But now that everything is on hold, I’d like to get back to the COUNSELING issues that this blog should really be about. So we’ve been havinganother rash of “killing sprees”. The media dutifully reports that the perpetrators were “troubled”, “showed signs of mental illness”, “refused treatment” and so on. I think this just perpetuates the myth that  people with mental illness are more violent than the “normal” population. Nothing could be further from the truth.