Today will be busy for me, so I want to push out a few posts to get the day started. Yesterday we were looking at the possibility, or likelihood, that the young killer at the TX school was on meds of one sort or another. I cited Alex Berenson in that regard:
I have been taking a high dosage of SSRI's for the past 9 to treat OCD - it has practically saved my sanity. I worked with multiple psychologists and psychiatrists until I found the right fit that helped solved my personal issues. The psychiatrist that I currently see literally wrote parts of the chapter in DSM 5 (the textbook/bible of mental health) on anxiety and depression - he's an expert.
Interestingly, my psychologist is strictly adamant that I not use cannabis whilst on SSRI's. Their interactions are harmful.
My perspective is that there are too many factors when it comes to peoples mental, physical and emotional health in order that we can to isolate a particular variable. When twenty kids are murdered, I for one have nothing else to fall upon but faith and prayer.
I would submit that it’s not a big story and nobody is talking about it for the same reason that no one is talking about the disastrous consequences of the rMNA
mess, because as you said Mark, the experts turned out to be “not so expert”.
Couple that with the fact that it could be used as another weapon to erode more freedoms, create more fear and increase the clamor for more government intervention in the lives of it’s citizens.
Possible too, that the various branches of the Ministry of Propaganda have decreed that “ this story will have no legs!”
And we certainly don’t want to start asking inconvenient questions like, “what kind of a society produces people like this?” Or does the fact that one of the main political parties platform policies insists that it is a woman’s right to choose to murder her unborn child, thus demeaning and trivializing human life to the point that it no longer has any value, contribute to these wanton acts.
As I said, inconvenient questions that people of good breeding simply don’t discuss in polite society.
With apologies to Shakespeare, “see what a scourge is laid upon our heads”.
The suspected gunman who slaughtered 19 students and two teachers Tuesday at a Texas elementary school fired shots outside the school for 12 minutes before entering, an official said. Eighteen-year-old Salvador Ramos spent approximately 12 minutes outside of Robb Elementary School firing shots before he walked into the school and barricaded himself in a classroom, Regional Director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, Victor Escalon, said Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Escalon was unable to provide any answers Thursday as to why no one stopped Ramos from entering the school, the WSJ reported.
I think some of this is going in the right direction. While cannabis may have a deleterious impact on some kids I'd more likely point the finger at the use of drugs proscribed for children for all kinds of maladies no one heard of while I was growing up in the 60's and 70's. A pet peeve of mine has always been the gun blame game following any mass shooting, but specifically school shootings. I wondered why no one ever asked the obvious question "why are our children murdering their classmates in greater frequency than earlier generations?" This article may be a step in the right direction to answering that question, but I doubt people are going to ever really determine root cause. It's so much the better to play the blame game to score political points and smear those they hate. So tired of all this.
And studies hide the suicide issues. There is a huge issue when a person stops taking anti depressants, withdrawal challenges. And the body adapts to anti depressants, which causes more headaches.
I have been taking a high dosage of SSRI's for the past 9 to treat OCD - it has practically saved my sanity. I worked with multiple psychologists and psychiatrists until I found the right fit that helped solved my personal issues. The psychiatrist that I currently see literally wrote parts of the chapter in DSM 5 (the textbook/bible of mental health) on anxiety and depression - he's an expert.
Interestingly, my psychologist is strictly adamant that I not use cannabis whilst on SSRI's. Their interactions are harmful.
My perspective is that there are too many factors when it comes to peoples mental, physical and emotional health in order that we can to isolate a particular variable. When twenty kids are murdered, I for one have nothing else to fall upon but faith and prayer.
I would submit that it’s not a big story and nobody is talking about it for the same reason that no one is talking about the disastrous consequences of the rMNA
mess, because as you said Mark, the experts turned out to be “not so expert”.
Couple that with the fact that it could be used as another weapon to erode more freedoms, create more fear and increase the clamor for more government intervention in the lives of it’s citizens.
Possible too, that the various branches of the Ministry of Propaganda have decreed that “ this story will have no legs!”
And we certainly don’t want to start asking inconvenient questions like, “what kind of a society produces people like this?” Or does the fact that one of the main political parties platform policies insists that it is a woman’s right to choose to murder her unborn child, thus demeaning and trivializing human life to the point that it no longer has any value, contribute to these wanton acts.
As I said, inconvenient questions that people of good breeding simply don’t discuss in polite society.
With apologies to Shakespeare, “see what a scourge is laid upon our heads”.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4066479/posts
The suspected gunman who slaughtered 19 students and two teachers Tuesday at a Texas elementary school fired shots outside the school for 12 minutes before entering, an official said. Eighteen-year-old Salvador Ramos spent approximately 12 minutes outside of Robb Elementary School firing shots before he walked into the school and barricaded himself in a classroom, Regional Director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, Victor Escalon, said Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Escalon was unable to provide any answers Thursday as to why no one stopped Ramos from entering the school, the WSJ reported.
I'm looking at it another way. If the shooter did this in Syria (see this horrific transcript: https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3034995/pentagon-press-secretary-john-f-kirby-holds-a-press-briefing/) would he receive a medal? How different is his approach compared to how some of our troops act in countries that can't fight back. Maybe this behavior is more ingrained in our countries psyche than what we would like to believe.
I think some of this is going in the right direction. While cannabis may have a deleterious impact on some kids I'd more likely point the finger at the use of drugs proscribed for children for all kinds of maladies no one heard of while I was growing up in the 60's and 70's. A pet peeve of mine has always been the gun blame game following any mass shooting, but specifically school shootings. I wondered why no one ever asked the obvious question "why are our children murdering their classmates in greater frequency than earlier generations?" This article may be a step in the right direction to answering that question, but I doubt people are going to ever really determine root cause. It's so much the better to play the blame game to score political points and smear those they hate. So tired of all this.
Big Pharma. Big cash. Big TV source of advertisement revenues. Nothing to see here, Please move on.
Fear of Lawsuits is my guess.
>why isn’t this a bigger story?! Why aren’t the media giants reporting it?
The anti depressant market was $13.5 BILLION in 2020.
https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/antidepressant-drugs-market
And studies hide the suicide issues. There is a huge issue when a person stops taking anti depressants, withdrawal challenges. And the body adapts to anti depressants, which causes more headaches.
https://www.cchrflorida.org/big-pharma-hides-antidepressant-trial-suicides/
Thanks for the input.