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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the note text that has been posted so far, he sounds like a psychopath. [/quote]

The correct term is sociopath. This guy is undeniably a sociopath--he gets very little sympathy from me. Anyone with that level of detached planning to murder his own family (who he admits tried to help him!) is probably also a skilled liar. I don't believe he cut himself with an intention to kill himself but rather to get attention--which he did.

This kid is a monster. He should be jailed for the rest of his life in a facility that also provides counseling (which so jails do have, btw). He does sound like  stone cold incel  without the overt hatred of women part--as someone stated upthread. It's horrific. [/quote]

First of all, he can’t be jailed because HE’S DEAD.

Secondly, you are obviously ill informed about mental illness because you can’t diagnose someone from one letter. He could have suffered from depressive psychosis, which afflicts 1 in 5 people with depression and can lead to suicide AND homicide.

I can’t tell if the people posting all this garbage/spurious diagnoses on this thread are just terrified of mental illness, or are just willfully ignorant asses. There is actual research done - voluminous research - on the links between unstable mental illness and violence. A person can kill others while mentally ill and not be a sociopath.

Honestly it’s incredibly disheartening to read some of these posts. YOU folks are the ones putting people with mental illness into a box and labeling them MONSTERS, not me. A serious discussion about the reasons why mental illness results in violent acts is what is warranted here, not this dismissing these young men as monsters and washing your hands of it. That kind of attitude is what gets us a broken mental healthcare system like the one we currently have. Many of you seem only to want to acknowledge clinical depression that is ‘garden variety’ MDD or PPD and not to acknowledge the extremes that DO exist and in far more than ‘less than one percent’ of cases. Minimizing the potential for aberrant behavior is how we end up with incidents like this and like Adam Lanza and dozens of other mass shooters with known mental illness that have come before. You can’t just call them all sociopaths because they simply weren’t.

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