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HereSince1628

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9. Anger and vengeance are similar.

Wed Oct 7, 2015, 08:31 PM

Oct 2015

It seems that Lanza may have been embittered about his mother's interest in the school.

Linden developed the concept of post traumatic embitterment disorder, proved it could be accurately and consistently diagnosed, and developed an effective treatment. The APA in writing it's new version of it's diagnostic manual chose to leave it out as a valid diagnosis.

We should probably not accept that all the mental disorders that exist in the real world are yet identified and accepted by the psychiatric industry.

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Mentally ill people aren’t killers. Angry people are. [View all] uppityperson Oct 2015 OP

Not quite accurate per the science, but close. Daemonaquila Oct 2015 #1

The point of the article was it isn't about the psychology of mass killers Major Nikon Oct 2015 #8

violence may be linked to lonelyness olddots Oct 2015 #2

anger certainly seems to be the common denominator renate Oct 2015 #3

Anger and vengeance are similar. HereSince1628 Oct 2015 #9

I think the mentally ill are being scapegoated because people want an easy answer LostOne4Ever Oct 2015 #4

Agreed! loyalsister Oct 2015 #6

I think that's probably an over-generalization. HooptieWagon Oct 2015 #5

Sometimes, but not always. lindysalsagal Oct 2015 #7