There are five tell tales I look for in every one of these shooting.
1) Video game history
2) psychotropic drugs
3) were the authorities aware of potential violence
4) disaffected young males
5) family member murdered before incident
If all five are present, there is a 75% possibility that the shooter was programmed to kill via his medications and subliminal programming encoded into video game updates automatically installed on his version of whatever game he routinely played.
That probability is as High as it will get it without examination of internal gaming software or forensic evidence.
This sort of programming makes MKUltra seem like a vague suggestion.
Quoting: GORGLESNARGLE The age is very significant — roughly 18 to 25. That’s also when mental health issues develop often times.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73895558 There are actually two factors at play:
1. Most mental illnesses, specifically (what is, oh, so very inaccurately called) "personality" (brain) disorders
cannot be diagnosed until age 18. This does not in any way mean the person has not been exhibiting behavioral symptoms throughout childhood.
For example, if it still stands, Antisocial "personality" (brain) disorder cannot be diagnosed unless "oppositional defiance disorder" or "conduct disorder" symptoms were present in childhood. I've not kept up with the diagnostic criteria for ASPD, so they may now just use it as an indicator rather than a requirement.
So, we have a shitload of kids being written off as ADHD, "just a kid, s/he'll grow out of it", "strong willed", overly emotional (BPD) when the overt behavioral signals are there.
Parents don't want to admit there's something wrong with little Johnny, that they are ineffectual in parenting or, worse, they are disordered themselves (big genetic component).
Kids don't "fit in" at school due to brain (cognitive, perceptual, thought disruptions...untreated mental disorders), and they become fringe and social outcasts. Again, many parents are disordered themselves, so not only no help there but, typically, emotionally neglectful or even abusive environments.
2. Major mental health disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia, depressive disorder as examples, do start manifesting in late teens and early 20s and typically no later than age 25, which, interestingly, corresponds to the age the brain stops developing.
If there is any path to truth in this world, in 25 years it will be fully evidenced that mental illness is not fully psychological but
neurological with symptoms that manifest psychologically and behaviorally. There's a great body of neuroimaging evidence that's demonstrating the structural and wiring differences. The brain is part of a complex biological system.
Genetics and epigenetics. Their brains are wired differently, and the ineffective field of psychology wants/needs to protect their (big business) industry. Psychotherapy (talk treatment) as it stands is not and will never be effective in treating the root cause any more than you can talk your high glucose levels down with type 2 diabetes.
As an aside, BPD is being successfully treated with DBT and EMDR, which they also inaccurately call "psychotherapy" but the techniques actually result in re-wriring parts of the brain (per leading neuroscientists).
We have a mental illness (brain disorder/disruption) epidemic in the US.
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