is there a difference between a campus shooting and a hospital bombing?

[MADem]

69. Bipolar disorder pretty much is, and it's more difficult to

manage if, say, the patient is medically non-compliant and suffers schizophrenic affect.

I have a friend who, 99 percent of the time, is solid as a rock. Every few years, usually in response to an extreme stressor, this friend will become medically non-compliant, do something stupid, sometimes destructive, become an own worst enemy, and wind up in the hospital for a few days. Then it's back on the meds and after a couple of rocky weeks, all is well again.

I strongly doubt the problem with this kid was simple anxiety. I think his problems were more intractable, and I think he probably lied to his recruiter (or his recruiter taught him how to lie at the MEPS--it happens). As for the military, if the kid didn't even make it through boot camp, he was an entry level discharge--that's sort of like not making the cut in the play try-out.

This theory could be wrong, but that's my best guess. More will be known in the days ahead.