Mental Health: Medical Science, Political Tool, Religion, or Fraud?

Mental health. The term itself makes people shudder with visions of people behaving like monsters, and insane asylums with thick padded walls which contain individuals wearing straight jackets muttering incomprehensive nothings with furious rage. Can anyone reading this point out what a person with a "mental health" problem looks like? What their personalities are like, what their inner-most passions are, or even if you know someone in this category?

I'll briefly speak of a recent incident that impacted many lives. I'm not speaking from the angle of media hype, because that's just plain old lame. I want to state myself in a manner as to give the victims and their families their right to grieve, their due respect. What needs to be put out in plain language is that all the well schooled, intricately trained, state licensed "mental health professionals" failed us again.

I'm talking about the Virginia Tech tragedy. There were warning signs and even a hospitalization with notification to law enforcement. I won't harp on law enforcement because these guys and gals are in a catch 22 no matter what, and it irritates them to no end. They are given the tools to do a job only to have those tools restricted or even taken away through a slick political process that favors anyone but the public.