re: #19 KerFuFFler

I agree. Some people may avoid treatment for their kids for religious reasons, but many others may do so out of denial. (“There’s nothing wrong with my boy….”)

The mom probably had pretty serious issues herself since she pretty clearly could not see that her son was too troubled to be safe around guns. Her level of denial seems borderline clinical to me.

She did try to help him socially and was very involved in his schooling. She tried get him involved in social activities but he refused. Getting him medicated against his will would have been hard because he was 20 and until he took his mother’s shotgun out of the gun safe without her permission he hadn’t broken any laws.

It’s almost impossible to get someone over 18 treated for mental illness against their will if they have not broken the law in America and that’s not going to change, for reasons Romantic_Heretic laid out well.