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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa
I'm going to try to make this brief, which is difficult for me.
Kitty is correct that it is often easy to identify potentially dangerous mentally ill people. When I was training in this area I was amazed to find how many of the mentally ill would readily admit that they heard voices in their head instructing them to do things when there was no other person present.
Years ago Liberal Activists destroyed the nation's mental health system of compulsory detention of potentially dangerous mentally ill people. Those people are now "the homeless" on our streets who refuse free refuge when it is offered.......
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Each of the mass murderers in Virginia Tech, Aurora CO movie theatre, Tuscon shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford et al, Navy ShipYard, Newtown Elementary School, and recent Santa Barbara campus killings, etc.
had been seen showing signs of dangerous mental illness, but they were allowed to continue freely in the community.
When are mental health clinicians and courts going to wake up and get these people off the streets and out of schools?
Here is one glaring example:
"A court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was "mentally ill" and potentially dangerous. Then it let him go.
In December 2005 -- more than a year before Monday's mass shootings -- a district court in Montgomery County, Va., ruled that Cho presented "an imminent danger to self or others."
That was the necessary criterion for a detention order, so that Cho, who had been accused of stalking by two female schoolmates, could be evaluated by a state doctor and ordered to undergo outpatient care.
According to the "Temporary Detention Order" obtained by ABC News, psychologist Roy Crouse found Cho's "affect is flat and mood is depressed.
"He denies suicidal ideation. He does not acknowledge symptoms of a thought disorder," Dr. Crouse wrote. "His insight and judgment are normal."
That information came to light two days after Cho, a Virginia Tech senior, killed 32 people and then himself in a shooting rampage on the university's campus...."
Va. Tech Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit - ABC News
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And here is another glaring example, the Navy Yard killer:
"A month before he went on the rampage, Alexis complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel rooms and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep, according to The Associated Press. Police notified the Navy of the incident, but it's unclear what was done with that report.
He was shot and killed by police responding to the attack Monday...."
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-...ard-voices-but