Myron May, identified as the suspected shooter at Florida State University, was an FSU alumnus and attorney who recently resigned his job in a Las Cruces, NM, district attorney's office and reportedly was having financial difficulties
Posted on 11/22/2014 1:55:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"...In interviews with the Tampa Bay Times on Friday, May's friends described their frustrations over the past three months with the area's mental health care system, one that couldn't save May despite desperate pleas from loved ones who watched him dissolve into paranoia before their eyes......
Six months into his job as a prosecutor in the Dona Ana County District Attorney's Office in New Mexico, May couldn't concentrate.
The 31-year-old had become so distractible, he told his friends, that he had decided to see a psychologist. He emerged from the appointment with prescriptions for an antidepressant and an attention deficit drug, which he took faithfully until, about three weeks later, he suffered a panic attack at work.
When another attack followed a week later, he returned to his psychologist and had his medication adjusted, said Nixon, a doctor. May was on a combination of Wellbutrin and Vyvanse — drugs that, in rare cases, can cause paranoia.
By late summer, May had begun acting strangely, his friends said. He was worried his neighbors were watching him. He heard them talking about him through the walls of his apartment.
It was alarming to his friends, but it was nothing, they said, compared to what was still to come.
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May told his friends that the officers at the Las Cruces Police Department laughed at him when he showed up on the morning of Sept. 7 to make a bizarre report: Someone was watching him through a camera hidden in his apartment. And he was hearing voices coming in through the walls as he bathed.
May left the Police Department that day and went to a shooting range, where friends had gathered for a bachelor party......
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Myron May, identified as the suspected shooter at Florida State University, was an FSU alumnus and attorney who recently resigned his job in a Las Cruces, NM, district attorney's office and reportedly was having financial difficulties
On another site, someone mentioned the same thing.
“I found that it was causing me to verbalize my self-talk.”
I would get fired for that...
This article misses how many children were saved and are success stories today because a parent cared enough to pull them out of school when they could not fit into the government mold and survive.
I agree with everything here except the reason they released him.
Most likely they released him because his insurance stops paying for his in hospital treatment after 4 days.
Four days is not nearly long enough to determine if drug treatment for schizophrenia is effective.
For mental hospitals standard practice is that when the insurance runs out they will find a way to release a voluntary commitment patient unless the patient is obviously a danger to themselves or others (because they are then liable).
They have to operate this way because they have to pay the bills. Very few persons can afford to pay for a stay at a mental hospital out of pocket. They have to release the patient when the insurance stops paying. Most medical insurance coverage stops paying for in hospital psychiatric care in a very few days.
Wow. .this is awful. God rest his soul.
Sounds like he was beset with paranoid schizophrenia........My best friend’s brother developed it at about the same age as May but fortunately he was never violent.
bfl
IIRC, Wellbutrin is a generic version of the pills used to stop smoking (Zyban?).
“There were no school shootings before the 1980’s”
That is incorrect. The University of Texas massacre in 1966, the Mesa AZ execution of four people in November 1966, November 1971 Gonzaga University shooting, December 1974 school shooting in Olean NY, 1976 Cal State Fullerton shooting and the 1979 Grover Cleveland Elementary shooting in San Diego. This is not a complete list.
Although infrequent by modern standards, deadly mass shootings, bombings, and arson occurred during the 20th century.
Just to clarify, I DO NOT support gun control in any way or form. “Gun Free” zones are a death trap.
Yes, hubby of a friend was in rehab for drugs, he thought for 28 days. They are forcing him out on Monday even though he does not think he will make it due to insurance.
the OP at Tampa Bay Times takes quite a while to mention
the man’s name: Myron May
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