[Roses0508]

My daughter worked at a mental health clinic for many years and is currently getting her nurse practioner’s degree to continue that work. I would think the alcohol, pot and conscious dreaming were all an attempt to “self-medicate” or to “cure” his illness. He knows something is wrong and has know for some time. He was trying to find a way to help himself. Too bad those who love him didn’t get him more help. No doubt, this young man will never be well. His actions were not political, they were simply the actions of a very disturbed, very sick young man.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

We don’t know that those who love him didn’t try to get him more help. If this man is mentally disturbed, he more than likely would not understand how badly he needed treatment. If he was living in psychosis he may have been unable to understand that he needed help.

I’ve known families where it takes many tries before they can get the correct mental health professionals on board, and even years before the right diagnosis is determined and correct treatment is implemented.

[Yardstick]

His actions were not political, they were simply the actions of a very disturbed, very sick young man.

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I mostly agree with that. If there is any “ideology” involved, it’s conspiracy theory junk, which is absolutely rampant on the internet where he spent a lot of time. I would imagine it fed into his psychotic thinking like rocket fuel. He seemed to have absorbed the entire conspiracy universe without filtering any of it. He was into Mayan calendar, UFOs, Illuminati, mind control, Bohemian Grove, the whole bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gAU550GlLQ