Postal Letter

Can a bad experience with racism turn a Latino into a militant Hispanic supremacist?

I wasn't this way before but a few bad experiences have turned me into a very angry person and it's scares me sometimes. And now with all the anti-immigrant things you here on the news I think that there's some kind of conspiracy, I know I have mental problems and I'm taking meds for it that my doctor gave me. I start counseling next week. What could be wrong with me? I get into arguments online with people who hate immigrants and I feel like im gonna explode but then I calm my self down. I have white friends and I don't hate them but some people make me so angry and my biggest fear is that it could progress and god forbid a few years down the road I do something crazy like those shooters I see on the news that go postal and stuff. I wish I knew why I'm so depressed and angry at society :( They put me on seroquel and paxil but sometimes id rather drink vodka than take pills. Do you I have schizophrenia or something? I'm 30 and I still live with my mom and she worries alot about me :(

Public Comments

1. well the thing is, immigrants are coming into this country ILLEGAL and it's causing a lot of problems of making many states crowded and all that. but honestly, if you don't like it then you need to leave the country cause it won't get better......
2. The first part of your question betrays a certain view that people are the "result" of their experiences. I don't think that's entirely true. No one "makes" you hold a view or "makes" you think something or "makes" you feel things. Only you control what you think and what you say and do. In other words, to be honest, if you are clinically depressed, you would be depressed no matter what happened in your life, no matter how people treated you. Whatever occurred in your life, good or bad, you would think "that is why I'm depressed." So, if you've had some bad experiences with people who are racists, then you would say to yourself "that's why I'm depressed and angry -- because of them -- and if only they didn't..." But that's probably not true! You would be depressed and angry no matter what. And if that hadn't occurred, you would blame other things. That's a hard thing to wrap your mind around, but it's probably mostly true. If it makes you feel any better the reason the very odd and un-American "anti-immigrant things" you hear about in the media seems like a conspiracy because it is a conspiracy of sorts. People can be foolish and simply go along with what it seems like "everyone else" is thinking. But regardless of what the future brings, no one "makes" anyone do things. If you "do something" it's because you and you alone choose to do it. Good luck.