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Today, I'm going to have Dr. Cummings on, but before I do, I'm going to have a little

bit of an introduction to this topic of violence and mental health.

I think this is an important topic to discuss because so much in the media and in movies,

there's this depiction of the person with mental health issues having a major psychiatric

diagnosis being very violent.

And so I recently posted it on TikTok and this one out and got something like 27,000

hearts and 143,000 views on this topic is saying that only 5% of violent acts are done

by someone with a major mental health issue without the comorbidity of drug or alcohol

use.

And that 5% people are really upset about this.

People are saying like, oh, where's your data, where's your citations?

And so I thought I would have Dr. Cummings on talk about this a little bit, but I thought

I would also go through some studies talking about this because it's a major stigma increasing

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