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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Once you are 18, you can't be held against your will in a psychiatric facility unless there is irrefutable proof that you are an imminent danger to yourself or others. There was no proof of that before the incident.[/quote]

Was Lanza even seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist regularly so that someone would have been aware if he had these tendencies?!?   He only communicates with his mother via email and lives in the basement with all the windows covered with garbage bags...  The New Yorker article isn't clear if he was under regular psychiatric care and Peter Lanza who hasn't seen his son in two yrs says no one saw any violent tendencies.[/quote]

A teacher apparently did write a report saying that Adam had "disturbing" violence in his writing and that he was not normal, with anti-social issues." The New Yorker piece mentions no follow up on the parents' part, but it's unclear if they knew of that report.

"All these professionals," the ones Mr. Lanza mentions, seems to be two psychiatrists, one who saw Adam at 13 and one who saw him at 14. He seems to have been 14 when medication was prescribed for him, which he did not take. There is no mention of any other mental health professional being involved with the family after that. If there had been, one would think Mr. Lanza would mention it.[/quote]

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