JAMA Psychiatry: Mass Violence and the Complex Spectrum of Mental Illness and Mental Functioning

[CharleyDog]

1. Mass violence in our country; we as a country need to discuss this more, examine it and relate it in

our own lives. We are all vulnerable to mass violence as you said, worry about ourselves and our family falling victim; but also
who becomes the "perpetrator" of violence? As we witnessed in Jan 6 acts, a mob of mostly "normal people" attacked the Capitol police (not mentally ill), many shooters (as we call them) believe they have integrity - bestowed by god or from Fox News; and so what do we do as a country? Instead of solutions right now, many in our country are doing the opposite and breeding mass violence.

It could affect *anyone* who becomes convinced that violence is the only way to save the country, to save the "babies," to kill the pedophiles, that Blue States/blue cities are vermin infested cockroach people and violence is necessary.

-any person can "break," become desperate, do desperate acts
-people are easily brainwashed, more than most people realize
-Mass media/social media purposefully twisting truth for propaganda and money, politics and power
-weapons/guns/force are more glorified. Even Jesus has a gun.

It's not just personality disorders, or mental illnesses we have to worry about in mass violence; psychiatry is not helping us with the purposeful brainwashing of some mass media outlets, the threat of guns everywhere, calls for civil war, cruel laws against the most vulnerable people in our country, and stoking rumors of nuclear warfare - all this is not normal. Not a way to live. Other countries are not this way.