School Shooting In Connecticut

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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Sounds like you do a lot of good work. The problem is you can't force people to go to a place like yours to get diagnosed, let alone treatment. Families often don't know what to do or are afraid to do anything. I have no statistics to back it up, but I would think that for every person getting help, there 3 or 4 that aren't.

Well, it really depends upon the situation. I mean, there are such things as ECOs and TDOs (Emergency Custody Orders, Temporary Detention Orders) that are issued by a court once our emergency clinicians have evaluated the individual. They either voluntarily come off the street and seek services, or they're arrested for something and the police requests a clinician to come and evaluate the individual. So, it's not always that they come into our facility, our clinicians are prepared to go out and see them. Not that it's going to prevent every situation like what happened today, but it's possible that there may have been several like situations that have been prevented because of our behavioral health services.

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

I don't know if we just don't hear about it as much, but it seems stuff like this happens a lot more here than other parts of the world. For some reason, this country seems to produce the most lone gunmen, serial killers, etc. I wonder why that is. Why are there so many crazy people here vs other places?

Who knows what this guys deal was. His mother worked there and he killed her.

We all can agree that people who do these things are not in their right minds, but where we all may disagree is how did they get to this point? Was it genetic, was it some experience that happened in their lives? Was it drugs? Was it alcohol? What was it?