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Yo_Mama

(8,303 posts)
9. And it would help many more kids
Sun May 26, 2013, 12:29 PM
May 2013

Because even if in acute distress, most kids won't decide to commit mass murder - but the rest of their lives may be deeply impacted in ways we could have prevented.

I also think that mental health treatment has shifted toward the pill-oriented approach, and in some cases teens especially can have viciously bad responses to psychoactive drugs. Psychoactive meds without counseling to detect problems may be causing some of these incidents as well.

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