Impact Of Violence In Nebraska Mall?

Question

Most everyone has heard that a troubled young man recently shot some people, killing them, and then turned the gun on himself.

Everyone wants to know what signs they may have missed in him that could have been worked with to prevent all of this. Can mental health "experts" be blamed for their claims that they know everything, yet they fail to catch the supposed signs ahead of time 100 percent of the time?

This again shows the inability of mental health "professionals" to deliver on what they shout so loud to all the world about that they know is so real and treatable. They have had more than 100 years to prove themselves as a science, yet they hurt more people or fail to protect those whom they are charged with protecting. Can they realistically call themselves a science?

Are they capable of performing in their chosen line of work? Should the mental health field be shut down and completely examined in depth like the "patients" they examine themselves? Rebuilt in some way?

Read the link to help form your opinion:

http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/

Answer 1

Absolutely psychology is encouraging people to dwell on misery. Depression is not a chemical problem in the brain. If you looked at my brain when I lost a loved one it would be different then when I was on vacation. Depression is selfish state of mind, the cure is get busy doing for others and stop thinking about yourself. Furthermore most good moms know that they cannot carry on about scary, horrible things or their kids will pick up on it, they know to change the focus to good, fun things. Why don't the shrinks understand this. I'm not saying you wont be sad or shouldn't be but you do need to let go and move on and not talk it to death. That doesn't happen it just fuels the misery.

Answer 2

I think the point isn't to "spot the nut from the crowd and fix him", but to wholistically examine our society. I am so jaded, I didn't even blink when I heard about the Nebraska shootings. I'm quite appalled by that, but also quite confident many people felt the same way. How does this numbness come to be?

I think it's just a lack of kindness. If money is the root of all evil, kindness is the root of all good, but it seems to be the "independent" faction of the "values industry", the "mainstream" being dominated by petulence and apathy.

Going back to your question, I think it is pointless to villify the mental health profession because one mentally ill person did something wrong . The connection between the shooter and all the counsellors, therapists, psychiatrists who have aided or tried to aid people in their difficulties, is very flaky.

Answer 3

That kids parents should never have kicked him out. They should have sought professional help for him, even though those 'professionals' are questionable. With all the troubles that kid had, nobody sought help for him. He probably wouldn't have done it himself and he saw his only solution was the action he took.

Another wasted life due to rejection. Very sad. I know this is a bad thing to say but, I hope his parents fell very very guilty for not helping him.

Answer 4

good question.
i do find the mental health "professionals" knows nothing at all. They know nothing, not all problems can't be treated within the mental health context.
freud's stuffs is like a science fiction fantasy novel, highly theorectical, no proof at all.

Answer 5

From what I've heard, this individual had problems early on.
It usually comes to this each time we hear these sordid stories.
It seems common sense evades the obvious.

Answer 6

The best thing we can do, in my opinion, to make sure they don't happen again, is listen. I'm sure there were signs, but you won't notice them if you don't listen.