Thanks#.....Seemed strange to me that America's "gun problem", was simply an aberration of the Republican party.

Psychiatric services in the UK, even with "socialised medicine" are an absolute disgrace....the "poor man" of the medical profession.
I know someone who has been waiting over eight months for an assessment for severe OCD.
One psychiatrist to serve a population of a hundred thousand.

Psychiatric illness is an illness of society, often accepted rather than treated. the US problems certainly stem from a society in decline and the effect of that decline on the psychologically vulnerable.