While perpetrating violence is relatively uncommon among those with serious mental illness, when it does occur, in many cases it is intertwined with other issues such as co-occurring substance use, adverse childhood experiences, and environmental factors, says Eric B. Elbogen, PhD, a psychologist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Duke University School of Medicine who studies violence and mental illness.
“If a person has a severe mental illness, they may have other risk factors for violent behavior,” he says. “So, it may not be mental illness that is driving the violence at all, but rather factors like having been abused as a child, being unemployed, or living in a high-crime neighborhood.”
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If you were told, likely by your mentally ill mom, that you were born in the wrong body, were encouraged to dress as the gender you aren't, were given puberty blockers that kept your genitals undeveloped and made you sterile for life, were encouraged to have mutilation surgeries that left you in permanent pain and disfigured for life, the likelihood of you picking up a gun and acting out is pretty high...regardless of what studies might show...
ReplyDeleteThe problem is how you define "mental illness". It ain't what it used to be.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding people! Mental patients have enough to cope with...
ReplyDeleteThere's a specific pattern of SSRI dementia that's involved in homicide-suicides. This pattern is not observed with what are normally more serious mental illnesses and more dangerous drugs. There are other drugs that produce weirdly similar reactions, like the religious conversions (some of which even lasted) among people who used LSD or the obsessive interest in suicide, as an academic subject if the person is not suicidal, among people who use Tegretol.
Because the commercial media try to suppress the truth about SSRIs and their effects, some people want to go overboard on the other side and imagine that all people with mental illness are homicidal. Most are not.
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