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Originally Posted by ilovetv
"AURORA, Colo. — The suspect in the Colorado theater rampage was seeing a University of Colorado psychiatrist who studies schizophrenia, according to court records released Friday, indicating for the first time that university officials were familiar with James Holmes’s mental state."
Also, I know two sets of parents whose family members' lives have been destroyed for years because of their sons becoming schizophrenic and murderous around age 20. Both schizophrenic men (in different communities/states) have tried to kill their parents and neighbors in some of the most brutal ways imaginable (bullets would have been quicker, kinder, gentler). Most of the time they're quiet and docile, but that can't be counted on as "safe". It's an ongoing nightmare for the families.
Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes was seeing psychiatrist at university before massacre - The Washington Post
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If you look at the literature on paranoid schizophrenia though most of the patients suffering from this mental disease are not violent, neither for themselves nor for others.
http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=schizophrenia9
"Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects 2.4 million American adults over the age of 18. Although it affects men and women with equal frequency, schizophrenia most often appears in men in their late teens or early twenties, while it appears in women in their late twenties or early thirties. Finding the causes for schizophrenia proves to be difficult as the cause and course of the illness is unique for each person."
There are not 2.4 million people out there in the US committing suicide or harming other people due to paranoid schizophrenic rages.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/par...hrenia/DS00862
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/schizophrenia/DS00196
http://www.schizophrenia.com/family/faqindex.htm
http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/f...-schizophrenia
I just see James Holmes as an evil person who could not handle whatever was stressing him out in his life. From the news reports, it sounds like he sent those materials to a psychiatrist he knew would not get his package until after the
The Dark Knight Rises premiere on July 20, 2012. He very carefully planned out the July 20, 2012 attack for months. These are not really the acts of someone who just suddenly goes off the deep end. What I am trying to say is that you cannot medicate away evil.