>>Welcome back to Houston newsmakers of drawn by psychiatrist doctor Harvey
Rosenstein good morning to you
good morning good to see you in
your topic this morning.
>>Mental illness has been in
the news a lot lately in that’s
in your area of focus
what there are a lot more
people I’ve read that are
dealing with mental illness
than many of us ever know about
absolutely just the suicide
rate loan in America.
>>One person dies from suicide.
Every
12 minutes. In one year alone a
couple years ago they
calculated a 47,000 people
committed suicide in America.
The second highest rate of
death for people between the
ages of
1835 for example, big
numbers and 2 kids it typically
we talk about suicide of people
doing damage to themselves you
find the people who have mental
illnesses.
>>Tend to do more harm to
themselves are they at a risk
to do damage to others as well
that I want to question when
you look at all the serial
killers all these things are
done it’s only a small
percentage. They’re actually
people with mental illness.
They have other political
reasons other personal reasons
that are not mental illness,
however, a great number what
we’re seeing lately in the
news. We are not political
action kind of a.
Violence but actually people
with certain kinds of mental
illness that can be treated.
You’re proponent of that that
there are a lot of things that
go on in our lives of we have
some level of mental illness
that their treatments for that
and that’s what you do. That’s
one of your specialty that’s
right you sates we can
sometimes self diagnose some
things that we may be going
through that we may need help
with absolutely.
>>But the idea is to first
recognize you need some help K
and then we’ll find a place a
person a professional that can
actually help you.
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The car would you suggest that the that we should be more aware of people within our
own sphere. Our close in family
members. What will we recognize
from people that might indicate
that they may need some help
you know even kids in grade
school can do this you
recognize someone who’s not
fitting in with the flow with
the energy and they they they
wear dark clothes, areas in
bright clothes. They seem to
self sequester off in the
corner, they don’t socialize a
they don’t connect where
they’re angry all the time or
they’re depressed or they don’t
make eye contact. The kids
themselves in school can
identify someone who doesn’t
seem to fit in bring
that to the attention of the
teacher the teacher, the
principal to the parent that’s
get professional help that’s a
very important that we
recognize even in families
when someone just isn’t
functioning. They can keep a
job they can support
themselves. They can’t get
along with people they’re not
happy they are depressed they
don’t leave the House. All of
these are signals. This person
needs perhaps a little
professional help you had a
a client once upon a time I
want to talk about this book
right other side of sanity
written by Daniel
Shepley right to consultation
with you write fiction a book
crime but based upon reality
based on a true story and this
was a would be
serial killer. There are at
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least a half a dozen people
walking around Houston today
that might not have them.
And some would be no one
to you. And he was after in a
paranoid state everyone who he
felt wrong time. And he
presented my office one night
without an appointment after
hours with this
9 millimeter pistol which he
pointed at me.
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♪ ♪ And he told me there’s a bullet
in the chamber. An alternately
took that gun.
So close to me I can bite the
muscle and then turned against
himself inside the roof of his
mouth back and forth like a
windshield wiper and I said to
him. I can see how depressed.
You really are. However.
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I do my
♪ I do my best work with the pistol in
this actual and with that he
took
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took ♪ the pistol.
When the satchel and that began
our treatment
and I will tell you that a few
sessions later he told me had I
not accepted him as a patient.
He would have killed me that
night and himself.
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You can see on the back
cover here completely different
person, he’s a person
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that says you know. Mental
illness does not.
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Have to end in murder, that’s what he wrote to me on the morning of the El
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Paso killings.
That whole process is one that
indicates that there is help
for people who have mental
illness and I know that there
are a lot of people who think.
>>Well you know it could put
off in a corner but that you’re
proactive in Europe. Absolutely
proactive is the is the is the
word.
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word. ♪ That this is
an example, how many people’s
like a prototype. How many more
people could be helped before
they get hurt or dozens of
other people get hurt that
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don’t have have to be it’s
preventable.
Suicide hotlines and therefore
reason obviously an absolutely
and they’re trained people they
know what they’re doing people
should reach out of favor as to
how much a stress play a role
in middle stress is huge
because you can have stressed
not only from a particular
illness like depression, or
bipolar disorder or
schizophrenia you can have
stress because you broke up in
a relationship, somebody left
you and you can’t handle it.
You can have stress because you
got fired from a job
and you’re angry because you
feel and injustice you want to
get even and your impulse of
angry at the time you’re out
of control. Dangerous position
in the end if you don’t have
the skills to control those
kinds of serious emotion.
You think people could get
something from this book that
will give them some real life.
Answers and how they can handle
stress. I really do because
they can see that you can take
maximal amount of stress.
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To the point you’re
so paranoid. But you can’t
really function and turn around
to where you can live a
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normal life.
Doctor on the stock. Thank you
for coming in I I really enjoy
this and I think you told me
you’re going to give me this
book are absolutely
>>thank you for coming in and
shedding some light on
something that really as you
said a real big problem in our
society makes a big difference
people can get some insight,
we’re gonna put information on
our website about contacting
you in contacting other
organizations that can help you
with any issues you may have