Adam Lanza’s Pediatric Records Reveal Growing Anxiety
Adam Lanza’s Pediatric Records Reveal Growing Anxiety
June 29, 2013, 11:07 pm ET by Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner, The Hartford Courant
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In September of his eighth-grade year, Adam Lanza was wracked by anxiety, his mother told doctors.
So intense were the feelings that Nancy Lanza drove him to the emergency room at Danbury Hospital for an evaluation.
Lanza, then 13, was asked the standard queries by physicians: Was he suicidal? Would he hurt others? His answer to each was “no.”
The 2005 episode, detailed in medical records, suggests what some investigators, family members and friends see as a shift in his middle school years to a more perilous emotional footing for a boy diagnosed with a sensory disorder and what a family member has described as Asperger’s syndrome. Seven years later, Lanza would kill his mother and then go on a murderous rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
The Courant obtained exclusive information from medical and school records that have for months been kept secret by agencies investigating the shootings. The documents span Lanza’s life from birth to age 18, including a September 2005 medical summary of the Danbury Hospital emergency room visit.
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