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22. Programmed psychosis.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Mon Jul 23, 2012, 04:18 PM

Jul 2012

I am tired of this idea that a typically mentally ill person would do such a thing. It's really insulting to people who struggle with it. And in any case, if you have ever talked to someone with disassociative traits, they either are so out of it that they can't even converse in a linear fashion or else their delusions are merely all talk. I have spoken to people who had delusions of grandeur and it was never anything they took to the next level.

Serial killers are different because there is a specific purpose to their killings. Gacy and Dahmer didn't kill multiple people at one time or in one day. That is a gradual murderous streak.

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I don't see what else it could be but severe mental illness [View all] cali Jul 2012 OP

I was thinking high-functioning paranoid schizophrenic.... steve2470 Jul 2012 #1

Seems odd that he waited peacefully for the police, Trillo Jul 2012 #2

late teens to mid 20s Confusious Jul 2012 #3

It's a fantasy/identity psychosis. ananda Jul 2012 #4

that sounds reasonable- cali Jul 2012 #6

A theory is being floated about a genetic psychosis that can cause flamingdem Jul 2012 #7

Yes I read that too sasha031 Jul 2012 #8

We don't yet know if he had drugs in his system, prescribed or otherwise..... soccer1 Jul 2012 #20

That's my take. He was also abusing prescription drugs... n/t progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #15

He seems to be a Vicodin user/addict, and that can cause hallucinations flamingdem Jul 2012 #5

Here is my non-professional diagnosis; he is a mean, vindictive, russspeakeasy Jul 2012 #9

you know you can still be angry at him and say fuck him even cali Jul 2012 #11

He's at the age where many mental issues WolverineDG Jul 2012 #10

Should be locked up forever regardless. cbdo2007 Jul 2012 #12

of course. cali Jul 2012 #13

Do you remember the shooter in Texas back in the '60s? 1-Old-Man Jul 2012 #14

You sound a little like a Kinky Friedman song Nevernose Jul 2012 #17

Impossible to know until real doctors look at him Johonny Jul 2012 #16

I don't think that applies to violent criminals.... cbdo2007 Jul 2012 #18

This is not what the talking heads are saying Johonny Jul 2012 #21

He is in the right age range for the onset of Schizophrenia. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #19

Programmed psychosis. japa beads jamie Jul 2012 #22