re: #148 A Mom Anon

In cases like this(from what we know so far)this wasn’t sudden. The guy had mental health issues when he was younger. Throw in a divorce and perhaps resulting fighting and bickering, and then you end up with someone who plans to end the whole mess because they see no other alternatives.

There is still tremendous stigma attached to mental illnesses of all sorts. The right treatment is expensive and in some cases difficult to find. We also lack the sheer numbers of practitioners and professionals needed to handle this problem properly. And to be honest, we simply do not know enough about the human brain to help a lot of people. I wish these incidents would make people understand and rethink what community means too, and embrace more of the people who seem odd or weird, isolation doesn’t help mental illness go away either.

It seems like this is happening more and more. I don’t remember reading or hearing about similar stories 30 years ago. Were there less killings like that or was the news just not reporting on them as much?