Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Another fun week of talk with you guys. A lot of you have flown in this past week or driven in from different parts of the country for me to do neuropsychia vowels. It's been really fun. I've been able to meet you guys and a lot of you guys had a chance to meet Julie as well.

So much appreciation for all the comments and feedback.

This is really the highlight of my week because it's so different from what I do on a day-to-day basis doing neuropsychie valves.

And we just try to do our best to again destigmatize

legitimize and instill a sense of hope when it comes to mental health and mental illness

for those you guys who follow the program you you know, I do this organically.

And something pops in my head and one to just kind of go with it.

So over the recent days in the United States, we've had an unfortunate, another school shooting in Texas. And the United States seems to be the

epicenter of school shootings. You don't seem to see this in other parts of the world.

And it got me thinking, you know, this is not an episode on politics, but I will comment that I don't understand any legitimate reason why an individual needs an assault rifle of any type.

And as our country typically does, as with Columbine and Sandy Hook and Parkland, people get forgotten

movements.

They start up, protests, and then it just dissipates into the black hole of politics and

negligence, I think, on the part of people who are supposed to be running our country

so it's quite unfortunate and I know we have a huge following in Texas so my heart

and Julie's heart goes out to all the families in Texas and anybody who's been affected by

this horrific event.

And it got me thinking, I've mentioned this before that, you know, I really don't think that in all these different school shootings, people just woke up one day and said, hey, I'm going to go and kill as many people as I can.

I think that in these individuals, there has been a long, probably unnoticed, undelt with, a host of psychiatric conditions and mental health issues.

And I really think that the academic system, at least here in the United States, needs

to really do a much better job of getting more mental health professionals on board

because screening tools are available.

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