Posted on 10/04/2013 8:35:40 AM PDT by dmz
Washington (CNN) -- Authorities investigating why a Connecticut woman rammed barricades and led police on a chase near the U.S. Capitol found medications in her apartment to treat schizophrenia and other mental disorders, a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation said Friday
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Bipolar disorder is manic depression. Comparing it to schizophrenia is like saying the common cold and HIV are the same thing since both have viral origins.
If your family member were institutionalized she would be taking her meds. The pattern is always the same. They take the meds, get to feeling better, realize the meds cause a certain level of intoxicated feeling, and then they stop taking the meds. Then they go bonkers and the pattern starts all over again.
I’m sorry your family member has an incurable, chronic illness. Being institutionalized is far better than being the next Navy Yard shooter, the next person choked to death by other passengers on an airplane, or the next erratic driver in DC.
Well, that certainly explains how her car was dent-free after trying to ram her way through the barricades.
“I am feeling a bit cynical.”
You’re not the only one either.
Yup no need to kill her as i said b4 ..shoot out the tires,the engine anything but her.
Capitol Police F’ed up
I’ll buy the theory that she was tired of keeping her baby daddy under wraps and wanted to expose him. Probably someone in the Capitol who skipped out on his payments!
Well Bi Polar Disorder isn’t schizophrenia. A close family member got along for months and months without meds till something happened.
It is a situation where medical records will not be released. As is sop. Flying blind here.
Let’s see the prescription bottle. Did boyfriend scr** with her head?...Aggravate her?
Why not?
A Paranoid schizophenic freaking out when confronted by armed men. Hard to believe.
You beat me to it!!
I would also add Adam Lanza, the psycho that shot up that school last December. Many of the young school shooters were on psychotropic drugs as well.
Why nothing about this? — except on sites the media labels “nutty”
Result of drugging up America’s youth.
Partial list:
More extensive list at link.
• Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.
• Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
• Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.
• Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.
• Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.
• Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.
• Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
• Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.
• A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.
• Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..
• A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.
• Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.
• TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.
• Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.
• James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
• Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania
• Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California
• Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.
• Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.
• Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.
• Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
• Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.
• Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.
http://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-psychotropic-drugs
Agree. Cops overreacted...big time!
Mental cases are very open to suggestions.
When you have the airwaves and internet full of suggestions to kill those “evil right wingers” like we’ve had, you can’t take a chance.
Some left wing freak even wanted Obama to turn the military against the republicans.
no firearm, thus far, found or fired by this person. Strange ... more than strange. Medication? Medication can never react different on different people (this sentence is sarcasm). Medication can never be altered (this sentence is sarcasm too).
Not all schizophrenics run around killing people.
So do I.
Where will they be institutionalized exactly? Start naming facilities. Who will pay for their care and imprisonment... i mean treatment?
I doubt you have even the most remote understanding of the mental institution history in this country and the fact that most were shut down due to horrific treatment. Lack of funding and overcrowding turned the mental health profession into the prison profession, except worse because few gave a crap what happened to these people. Everyone wants to lock the crazies up but nobody wants to pay for it.
If the problem is that these horrible meds drive some people absolutely insane, maybe even years after use of them happens, the ptb can't really tell us that. It would mean millions of people potentially hearing voices that make them crazy.
And what's pig pharm's answer? Usually, to "adjust the meds".
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