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Originally Posted by ilovetv
The commander general speaking to press now says the shooter was in the process of being diagnosed with PTSD but had not been diagnosed yet and was in treatment for various psychiatric conditions. An earlier report said he'd just been transferred to Ft Hood in Feb and they started checking his background deeper now.
Our army friends talk about how painfully slow moving the bureaucracy is.
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Not sure that will stop any of these militarily based shootings as there are many returning from combat who would turn up under tests as having some kind of mental health problems. Turning to violence is a big step from being mentally ill in some way. What this country really needs is some education about the mentally ill and just how many people get depressed, suffer from some kind of anxiety, are dependent on pills in some way, etc. Research the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
https://www.nami.org/ http://www.nami.org/factsheets/menta..._factsheet.pdf
I have suffered from depression on and off for decades and would never do any thing violent to anyone unless I were in a self-defense situation and I would probably be rechecking my actions in such a predicament from so many angles that I might be too slow to act. On a lighter note, I have an acquaintance who heard a noise in her house, picked up her loaded pistol from the nightstand, and shot her vacuum cleaner, which had moved a little bit because she had not put it away properly. One less vacuum cleaner in the Villages. And I hope also one less hot headed gun fanatic.
Also remember that the military has a history of covering up misdeeds by the powerful by making the victims look like they are mentally ill. This seems to be a very common tactic among totalitarian organizations where too much power is concentrated in too few hands. They probably need some kind of ombudsman in the military who can address problems of the abuse of labels of mental illness, interpersonal rage, and other things that might pop up which would require an independent investigator not in any chain of command.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman
There does seem to be an ombudsman in the US Navy--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsm...ed_States_Navy
This movie might also be of interest--
http://www.nami.org/Template_itstime...nkie_and_Alice http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...kie-alice.html