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A lot of people who commit crimes are suffering from a range of untreated mental illnesses. They are not always firing on all cylinders all of the time, leading
by qingcharles 2y ago
A lot of people who commit crimes are suffering from a range of untreated mental illnesses. They are not always firing on all cylinders all of the time, leading to weirdness like this.
- jajko 2y agoMost folks with mental illnesses live among us, not in mental institutions. If on a scale 1-10 you have something like bipolar on 1 or 2, you can sort of function with some meds. Sort of, until SHTF and emotions go haywire. Keeping relationships is hard, be it personal or professional, so folks struggle but from outside they often just appear 'weird'. Wife is a GP doctor, maybe 1/3rd of her patients have some form of this.
- qingcharles 2y ago100% this. I've seen stats saying 20% of people in jail have untreated mental illness. I've spent a lot of time in jails and I would say it has be 80%+ because a lot of people can function enough to live in society and hide their symptoms until the point where they do something criminal.
- throwaway48476 2y agoThis guy had bad back problems and got surgery but it was probably ongoing. He got kicked off his parents insurance at 26 and ran out of money.
- zusammen 2y ago[dead]
- shalmanese 2y agoHe was working for TrueCar as a data engineer, he had employee provided health insurance.
- another2another 2y agoAlso (I'm hoping) the trauma of taking another person's life must be hugely upsetting. I'm hoping it's not something you do lightly, and is not without personal consequences (guilt,shame, shock,.. dunno).
- torified 2y agoWhy would you hope that? Can you really not think of anyone where it would be better if they were... not there anymore?