Mental Health, 2nd Fort Hood Shooter, and Student who stabbed school mates .

Okay, so I am listening to stupid Dough Stephen show.  Sir Dummy himself is reviewing the incident in the school where a student runs through the school stabbing people.  Mr. Stephen starts to comment on how the actions of the perpetrator look like the scenes of a horror movie where the movie bad guy starts to hack people up.

My initial reaction to such foolish thinking is anger.  I try to believe that I live in an educated and informed society. 

Again, violence in media is not the fuel for violence.  Being educated by a violent society such as a gang, a terrorist group, or culture where violence Is worshiped is the reason for some violence.  Till my last day I will continue to say that behavior is learned through interacting with other people.

In addition, there are people who through no fault of their own are led to violence because of the malfunction in their brain.  These people have brains that produce too much or too little neurotransmitters.

This imbalance leads to running thoughts, angst, anxiety, and/or depression.  The person wants these feelings to stop.  They try to make them stop.  The inability to make them stop leads to frustration and an increase in “running thoughts”, angst, anxiety, and depression, which leads to more pain and suffering.

When these people attack society they are lashing out at the feelings they cannot control out of a sense of trying to gain control.  Unfortunately, the idea that if they attack they will stop feeling the way they do enters in to their minds.

Now, a person who is constantly attacked by members of his society will eventually act violently.  The possibility exist that this person who attacked the people in this school was a victim of peer pressure abuse.  A thorough investigation will have to be conducted to ascertain the facts.

I can tell you that the behavior of the student perpetrator is the behavior of a person who has been struggling with his thoughts and emotions because of an imbalance in his brain chemistry.   I will say the same for the person who entered Fort Hood and attacked the people there, recently. A refusal for leave is not substantial reason for a reasonable, rational, well-adjusted person to take to violence.

It is also possible for stress itself to lead a person to appoint of believing that violence is necessary.  Unfortunately, most of us only know how to interpret failure as a negative.  This negative perception results in pain and some people attack to try to stop the pain.

I know that there will be some PhD who will go on about Schizophrenia.  Paranoid Schizophrenia may be part of the reason people attack other people.  However, Schizophrenia is the general category that the sub category Paranoid Schizophrenia is held under in science.

When a person is victimized by others that person can interpret every look from his or her abusers as indicating negative perceptions. These perceived insults by the abuser lead to pain in the victim.  The pain can grow to an extent that the suffering is too much for the person to handle.  At this point the victim of peer pressure abuse may act out violently.

The violence is a control mechanism employed to stop the pain and suffering.  Many people honestly believe that the people around them can see their rambling thoughts, angst, depression, and anxiety and believe that these people are laughing at them for being inferior.  

The perceived idea of ridicule results in pain.  Again, the pain grows.  Then the person attacks

Violent media is not part of social violence because violent media does not make people have a brain chemistry imbalance, make people feel pain from ridicule, is not responsible for human pain from failure, or responsible for mental health illness that comes from all forms of abuse.

People with mental health challenges and without mental health challenges are substantially exposed to violent media.  However, less than a 1% of 1% attacks members of their society.

Instead of obsessing on foolish ideas that are not validated by science, it would be better to focus on mental health. I know we can create affordable systems that can deal with the outcomes from all forms of abuse.  However, many people prefer to rant about nonsense mental health stereotypes.  This ranting does not help and makes things worse.

My last point is that people with brain chemistry imbalance are having a fierce inner struggle.  No one wants to suffer.  No one wants to feel like they do not have control over their thoughts and emotions.

Being threatened and feeling vulnerable leads people to attack. When we cannot control our thoughts and emotions, feel like we have no control, and/or have great pain and suffering we feel threatened and vulnerable, which means we will lash out to punish others and to defend ourselves.  I would call this paradigm maladaptive behaviors to normal life stressors.