mental illness: criminal? or are the real criminals making us sick?

between the number of people taking anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, anxiety meds, who drink or take drugs to cope, and people who just plain can't deal with this world it kinda seems like we can all be defined as "mentally ill."

a conservative estimate of the number of incarcerated individuals with mental illness is 16% however the number goes way up if you consider drug use a mental health issue not a criminal one... more than 20% of inmates in state prisons are there on drug charges, the rate is higher for federal prisons. 
whatever the on-record number might be, the truth is that prisons and jails represent the largest mental health care-providing institutions in the country, with rikers in new york, cook county jail in chicago, and l.a. county jail representing amerika's largest mental health facilities.

reagan switched up laws back in the day..he criminalized mental illness, took away mental health programs and just started stuffing people in prison..

not trying to make excuses but.. damn!  this world is fucked and most of us can't cope and wind up criminalized in some form at some point.  at bare minimum we take drugs (street or pharmaceutical) to cope.  we're just supposed to ignore the mind-numbing inhumanity of living under the heel of capitalism and militarism, feudalism/colonialism/imperialism.. a world built on domination.  never mind skills or communication or love or connection... life doesn't matter unless you have STUFF!  can't afford STUFF? well you fail at life... when can we drop the consumerism and just be people again?

the power elites have their domination of people and land and resources and its makin us all fucking nuts.  and when you can't hang, you wind up in a cage like an animal until you've had time settle down or rot.  

this is a sick, sad world.  get in line or they'll get you... don't worry, you'll be convinced soon enough.