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Nancy Lanza feared son, Adam, was ‘getting worse’; ‘he was burning himself with a lighter’
NY Daily News ^ | 12/16/12 | MATTHEW LYSIAK AND STEPHEN REX BROWN

Posted on 12/16/2012 12:53:37 PM PST by jimbo123

Less than a week before her son would launch his horrifying attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School, gun-loving mom Nancy Lanza knew "she was losing him" and that "he was getting worse."

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Adam, who the coroner's office said Sunday shot Nancy Lanza, 54, several times in the head before unleashing a nightmarish attack that killed 20 schoolchildren and six others Friday, was prone to hurting himself, the drinking buddy said.

"Nancy told me he was burning himself with a lighter. In the ankles or arms or something," he recalled of a conversation they had about a year ago. "It was like he was trying to feel something."

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KEYWORDS: adamlanza; adamlanzabio; nancylanza; sandyhook; sandyhookmother; sandyhookshooting
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To: beethovenfan

Schizophrenia tends to manifest itself around age 18-20 and it can often come on quite suddenly. There was a case locally where a 17 year old cut up his grandfather with an axe, just a couple weeks after his parents started to notice changes in his behavior.


121 posted on 12/16/2012 8:29:06 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: jimbo123

b4l


122 posted on 12/16/2012 8:31:07 PM PST by Oratam
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To: All
What is the deal with the stories making the rounds that both this kid and the Batman shooter's father's are both bigwigs set to testify at the LIBOR scandal hearings?

That's a little more than odd.

123 posted on 12/16/2012 8:33:38 PM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: jimbo123

WHy would an anarchist want to feel something?


124 posted on 12/16/2012 8:40:41 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: livius

>> (this couple got divorced in 2009

Thought it was around 2006. Nonetheless, I’m wondering what the deal is with “daddy”.


125 posted on 12/16/2012 8:43:09 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: arasina

Or are people speculating that he had that condition based on this barfly’s analysis.

Burning oneself sounds like a variation on ‘cutting’, which people do to lessen psychic pain.


126 posted on 12/17/2012 1:49:35 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: jimbo123
‘he was burning himself with a lighter’

Sounds like that crazy Joe Davola.

127 posted on 12/17/2012 1:50:59 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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The young man was burning himself (if true. not too sure I believe of all these second hand stories about how mentally ill the son was since many speaking out hardly even knew him personally). He qualified for a full evaluation because he was harming himself. If you really want if you are desperate and lie and say threatened to kill himself so they can get some treatment.


128 posted on 12/17/2012 11:15:22 AM PST by snowstorm12
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To: aft_lizard
"This isn’t the 1950’s anymore"

And THAT is a crying shame!

129 posted on 12/18/2012 7:33:44 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: CaptainK
And more accurately, 90% of the time, the mom keeps throwing roadblocks up when dad tries parenting said child. I've seen it happen in my own experience with my husband and his ex and several others sites I've been on (fathersandfamilies.org)

The government condones removing the father, and with it, any semblence of boundaries and structure--equating it all as "abuse." The mom is free to treat Junior like the little "man of the house" which in itself is abusive. Mom gives the child what I call A.S.S. (adult spousal status) allowing him to call the shots in the home. She assassinates dad's character in front of Junior, creating massive loyalty conflicts ("if you love mommy you'll hate your dad"). When Junior, who is now confused, extremely angry and hateful, gets physically too strong to handle, she puts him on mind bending meds.

When dad finally gives up in sheer hopelessness, having spent tens of thousands in legal fees just to preserve his basic parental rights, and decides to move on, mom gets further enraged:

http://www.shrink4men.com/2011/05/17/does-your-wife-or-ex-wife-have-a-golden-uterus-complex-15-characteristics-of-the-golden-uterus/

130 posted on 12/18/2012 7:45:50 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: Gene Eric

see my post #130


131 posted on 12/18/2012 7:51:11 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: ncalburt

See my post #130


132 posted on 12/18/2012 7:52:02 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

For every story of woe you can give me for a man I can give you two for a woman.


133 posted on 12/18/2012 11:23:03 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK
Maybe back in the early eighties! I'll have to call your bluff because I was a divorced single mom back in the eighties. NO child support, yet I managed to not alienate my children from their father and raise them to be decent, productive adults.

Most "single moms" don't have the "dad gene" aka the ability to put their boot up their kids backside. They'd rather be lenient and molly coddle them; especially if it means going against dad's wishes.

134 posted on 12/18/2012 12:56:15 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Percentage of Income in CS is inversely proportionate to Mother's parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Not in this case .
The guy took off and got remarried within just over a year .
She was left alone to deal with the messy kid and even the other son ran off .
That is what happens in situations with a mentally ill kid who is dangerous and very hostile .
Everyone gets burned out and flee once they see a chance .
Dad had not seen the kid in over a year ! He ran which is normal with
Schizoid child .
They are never ending drain .
My on laws / relative has one but she is very
Stable and takes her meds because her Dad and mom
Are very strict and loving .
We watch her so they can vacation every few months .
You don’t think this lady needed a vacation from this kid but
There was no one to watch him !


135 posted on 12/18/2012 4:56:41 PM PST by ncalburt (Axelrod Psych OPS has gone to 24/7 non stop - "The election is over " status until Nov)
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To: AbolishCSEU

I don’t doubt anything in your post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.


136 posted on 12/18/2012 6:06:05 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: arasina

I just happened to watch an old “Criminal Minds” episode over the weekend. It was from 2011, but was eerily similar to this recent shooting, with the bad guy (”unsub”) not feeling pain. also the outcast, loner, etc. I was thinking “if a dumb TV show can profile these guys, too bad we can’t do it in real life and get them help”:

Excerpt synopsys:

Back at police HQ, the team presents its theory to the team: the original killer had a silent partner, someone so inconsequential in the high-school social scene that he would have never stood out. “This unsub was the outcast that the outcasts rejected,” Reid explains....

Later that night, the team finds Jerry has been beaten to death in the high school hallway. “This unsub doesn’t feel pain,” Reid theorizes, noting that the mystery man punched through a glass display case BEFORE savagely beating Jerry.

Hotch theorizes that the unsub never developed a sense of empathy because he has never felt pain. [Reid then explained some medical condition]...

So the unsub, already an outcast in high school, is super angry that he survived only to be shunned again...

CUT to the restaurant, where a bomb EXPLODES. Sure enough, Robert soon emerges to confront the special survivor clique that has gathered for a dinner.... Moments later, Emily, Hotch and Derek enter the restaurant to find Robert holding a gun to a woman’s head. “Before tonight, they didn’t know my name!” Robert rages....


137 posted on 12/18/2012 11:57:23 PM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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