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In reply to the discussion: Just a reminder: Most people with mental illness are NOT violent. [View all]GreenPartyVoter
(72,388 posts)5. I'm bipolar, and I think that shooters like this might be mentally ill but
what they specifically are, I don't know. I do think there has to be something very very wrong for people to be able to do this, but is it mentally ill in the sense of something like bipolar or schizophrenia (both of which normally aren't violent) or is it something else? Some other sort of brokenness? What enabled Germans to be swept up into Nazism and commit those atrocities? Was that a form of group mental illness? Or serial killers, who kill in large(ish) numbers but usually slowly and stealthily?
What category do mass murderers fall into? And if the murderers generally wind up dead too, it's very hard to interview them and determine what was wrong except by bits and pieces of clues here and there.
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I'm bipolar, and I think that shooters like this might be mentally ill but
GreenPartyVoter
Dec 2012
#5
Yes, and I guess not all sociopaths and psychopaths become murderers either, based
GreenPartyVoter
Dec 2012
#15
Yes, I saw something about that on the show too, I think. What stuck with me most was the doctor who
GreenPartyVoter
Dec 2012
#17
but this kid was a spree killer, not a serial killer. totally different phenomenon.
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#49
well spree killers are usually having a psychotic break that might have been prevented
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#60
I don't pretend to have answers, but right now anyone can buy anything if they cross a state line
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#71
Because it is inherently mentally unbalanced/ill to want to commit murders, mass or otherwise,
1monster
Dec 2012
#51
I agree... it's simply it feels like we tend to dismiss anything from a "disturbed mind"
NRA_SUCKS
Dec 2012
#52
Kicking because many folks here are actively stigmatizing all mentally ill people
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#3
I see people trying to get people to understand the health care crises in regards to the mentally
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#50
Most of the mentally ill people I know are out rescuing abused animals from normal people
Cetacea
Dec 2012
#4
Most people are not violent, but mentally ill people are just more unpredictable than those without
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#9
"A very small percentage" are violent. We need to protect them from violence. Look at the numbers:
Cetacea
Dec 2012
#32
Except that the vast number of people who own guns want something that is only meant to kill.
originalpckelly
Dec 2012
#68
Violent Behavior and DSM-IV Psychiatric Disorders: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#18
There are two types of bi-polar disorder and has been broken down further into several groups
FedUpWithIt All
Dec 2012
#29
I haven't heard everything about the young man that perpetrated this horrible act.....
ReRe
Dec 2012
#53
+10000. This creepy meme that's beginning to take hold that this shooting is about mental illness,
riderinthestorm
Dec 2012
#72
This article dropped like a stone yesterday, maybe better luck here? 5 myths on mass shootings
riderinthestorm
Dec 2012
#83