hannah wesolowski? guest: thank you for sharing your diagnosis and your perspective. people have different perspectives on this, but we do know that somebody with a mental illness is more like gay victim of violence in the general population. if we look at mental illness alone, it will not address the challenges we have as a nation. we need more early intervention, and president mind has proposed $1 billion to increase the number of child workers, social workers in the nation. if we focus on that, we will still have a gun violence issue in this country. host: ashley, are you still on the line? caller: yes. host: if you don't mind talking about it, when were you diagnosed and how did you know you needed help? go ahead. caller: i got diagnosed in 2009, and my disorder has progressed. i have been doing really good on taking my medicine, keeping track of it, but the problem is that those thoughts are still there, you know? those thoughts of harming yourself -- i have never tried to harm myself, but those th

hannah wesolowski?thank you for sharing your diagnosis and your perspective. people have different perspectives on this, but we do know that somebody with a mental illness is more like gay victim of violence in the general population. if we look at mental illness alone, it will not address the challenges we have as a nation. we need more early intervention, and president mind has proposed $1 billion to increase the number of child workers, social workers in the nation. if we focus on that, we will still have a gun violence issue in this country. host: ashley, are you still on the line? caller: yes. host: if you don't mind talking about it, when were you diagnosed and how did you know you needed help? go ahead. caller: i got diagnosed in 2009, and my disorder has progressed. i have been doing really good on taking my medicine, keeping track of it, but the problem is that those thoughts are still there, you know? those thoughts of harming yourself -- i have never tried to harm myself, but those thoughts a

later, hannah wesolowski with the national alliance on mental illness talked about access to guns and the so-called red flag logs. be sure to join the conversation with cause, facebook comments, and tweets. ♪ host: good morning. it is wednesday, june 1, 2022. amid rising inflation rates that threaten the u.s. economy, president biden invited jerome powell to the white house to signal his ministrations focus on lowering prices. on the same day, president biden published an op-ed entitled "my plan for fighting inflation." this morning, we want to know if you think this white house can solve the problem of price increases from the pump to grocery store aisles? are you confident president biden can fix inflation?

host: hannah wesolowski, is there anything you wanted to pick up on that first? guest: i agree with peggy's point, these extreme risk protection orders are not a solution and end of themselves. they are part of the solution that needs to be thought through in this country. i would emphasize that mental illness, it's not a predictor of violence. looking at some of the other incidents in this young man's life, perhaps this would have helped, perhaps it wouldn't. but it's one of a number of solutions that need to be addressed. host: let me come back to that final point -- sheila writes in on twitter with this question -- but can you name one mass shooter who is not ill and that there were absolutely no signs of it? she was saying, no sane person could perform such horrific acts. guest: i understand how people feel that way. that is a normal reaction. that being said, somebody who is troubled, doesn't mean somebody has a mental illness. it means they have been victims of abuse themselves, they are experiencing psychosis -- there are a number of things that may impact