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In reply to the discussion: Anyone with a child like Adam Lanza should [View all]Catherina
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Men usually develop schizophrenia between the ages of 1825. This kid was only 20 so if its signs were relatively new, I can understand how the situation could have been very difficult, confusing, and overwhelming for her and for Adam.
I think you know I'm no gun nut but I disagree that guns are killing our kids- Big Pharma and Wall Street are. The guns are just a tool. Get rid of the guns and people having violent, delusional psychotic breaks will find a different way like chaining the exit doors of theaters shut and burning them down.
And not just Big Pharma but also the food industry. As schizophrenia is linked to a defect in the Prefrontal Cortex and brain research indicates that brain development, specifically the development of the prefrontal cortex, is not complete until near the age of 25, then you do the nutritional math of pumping kids full of chemicals instead of nourishing their brains properly. Enter companies like Monsanto who are injecting toxic pesticides into our food and staffing the FDA to approve what many of us are convinced are nutritionally defective foods for our bodies. Researchers can see neurotoxic effects on the cortex so why is no one paying attention to the research that's been done on that link to bad food during pregnancy and our childrens' early years? Instead our government insists on feeding our kids pink slime in schools because no one else will buy it and the meat industry needs a buyer. What kind of madness is this?
It's not that complicated except that we've sold our souls to these criminals.
It's all connected, we HAVE to change the system but when? When will enough be enough?
Like you said, yikes. This makes me terribly sad and I weep for our country.