one thing ive noticed in these school shootings?

Question

all these kids where on some sort of anti-depresrent pill....
do u think these drugs helped them or pushed them over the edge?

Answer 1

Is it surprising that the shooters in the school killings are mentally ill? Would a mentally balanced person commit such an act?

Sometimes people who have a mental illness respond to treatment with drugs and counseling. Usually it takes a trial and error period of a series of different drugs to find one that works for the particular patient. Each person is different. Many patients refuse treatment this frequently happens because the psychotropic drugs that are used to treat mental illness have many side effects. Not all people who are mentally ill become violent and do harm to themselves or others.

Mental illness and the indulgence in fantasies of violence are common to serial killers as is refusal to get treatment. Cho may have been schizophrenic. Coming to the US when he was 8 years old and not fitting in may have triggered his illness..

Lucinda Roy, the department's director of creative writing, who had Cho in one of her classes and described him as "troubled. She referred him for counseling....but he would not go.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-17-virginia-tech_N.htm?csp=34

“I kept saying, ‘Please go to counseling; I will take you to counseling,’ because he was so depressed,” Roy said. But “I was told [by counselors] that you can’t force anybody to go over ... so their hands were tied, too.”
Fellow students in a playwriting class with Cho also noticed the dark and disturbing nature of his compositions.
“His writing, the plays, were really morbid and grotesque,” Stephanie Derry, a senior English major, told the campus newspaper, The Collegiate Times.
“I remember one of them very well. It was about a son who hated his stepfather. In the play, the boy threw a chainsaw around and hammers at him. But the play ended with the boy violently suffocating the father with a Rice Krispy treat,” Derry said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18148802/

A copy of Cho's play entitled "Richard McBeef," can be found at thesmoking gun website. The bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child's mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with "a deadly blow." (10 pages)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html

Cho also wrote a second play, entitled "Mr. Brownstone"; the play is named after a Guns N' Roses song and contains lyrics copied verbatim from the song. Both plays are available on the website below.
http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

Noted U.S. poet Nikki Giovanni, who teaches at Virginia Tech, told CNN that she had insisted that Cho be removed from her class in 2005 because he had intimidated other students by photographing them and by writing obscene, violent poetry.
"I was willing to resign before I would continue with him," she said. "There was something mean about this boy. There was a real mean streak.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070418/us_nm/usa_crime_shooting_dc

Cho was admitted to Carilion St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in December 2005, after two women schoolmates said they had received threatening messages from him, and University officials said the school had obtained a "temporary detention order" from a local magistrate that allowed them to refer Cho to an off-campus medical facility. According to Virginia law, "A magistrate has the authority to issue a detention order upon a finding that a person is mentally ill and in need of hospitalization or treatment.
"The magistrate also must find that the person is an imminent danger to himself or others," says the guideline from Virginia's state court system.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3052278&page=1


At the Appalachian School of Law shooting in 2002. A disgruntled student killed two students before he was killed by two other students with their personal firearms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting

Answer 2

I think about that often. My view? Anti-depressents/pills only gloss over the problem......Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and faith go to the root of the problem. It may take years, but one can grow from these. It teaches the individual about diseases such as: Bi-Polar; Manic Depression; Schitzophrenia and others. When a person is educated on their disease, they can use that knowlege as a tool to overcome it. Again...pills are just a gloss over the problem and only give a temporary solution. That is why so many people go crazy, because once the pill stops working, they give up and become even more depressed than they originally were.

Answer 3

From what i have researched all mass killings have been on some sort of antidepressant. Drug companies have pushed and covered up so many problems , these drugs are overprescribed and hurting our society.

Would these people have commited these crimes if not medicated? Possibly but not necessarily,

Look at the warnings and side effects of these drugs

Scary!

Some do need it but I think only a small percent and then it is to be used with couseling and help...not premanent and long term......

Answer 4

I think it's all Judas Priest's fault. That's who caused all the suicides when I was in high school. Note to batgirl--In God We Trust was put on U.S. currency in 1957 as a result of an act passed in 1955 or 1956. It appeared on some coins in 1864 and on all coins after 1873. So, it's not been hundreds of years. It's been over 50 on the currency and 134 on the coins. Do your research.

Answer 5

Some anti-depressants have been linked to suicides, but nowhere are there links between anti-depressants and mass homicide. There is obviously a lot more to this story than meets the eye and prescription drugs are a very small part of it.

Answer 6

Not sure about that. But I do find it strange on the commercials for some of those drugs they put on tv that it says it can actually INCREASE thoughts about death and suicide. A little counter-productive don't you think?

Answer 7

It is NOT true that ALL these kids were on antidepressants. Where did you get that bit of false info?
One thing is TRUE: They were all white or Asian, mostly white. No Black kid was ever involved in a school shooting.

Answer 8

I highly doubt that the drugs did anything...It was the way they viewed life...if anything the drugs suppressed what feelings they had towards life until they couldn't stand it and snapped...but in order to truly find out, you'd need to know what was going on in their minds...

Answer 9

sometimes the pills put u over the edge, especially if no therapy was involved. pills don't cure it all.

Answer 10

People who need anti-depressant are already having trouble in the first place, and their illness causes such behaviour, not the drug.