I have worked with numerous children like this, and can say with certainty that the system doesn’t work. Even when parents do everything possible to try to get help, they are never believed. They won’t even diagnose children as psychotic because we have no way to deal with them as a society. I know of parents who have been forced to take children home from mental health programs because the children were too dangerous to stay in a program—even though the kid was violent and threatening to kill their family.
These poor parents are emotional wrecks, and they are abused by the system that is supposed to help them. The vast majority of parents killed by their children are victims of adopted children who are known psychopaths. The kids are all on SSRIs, but are taught that there are no consequences to their actions. They have no ability to attach emotionally, and will kill a person with less emotion than you would swat a fly. Despite years of therapy and innumerable programs, they are insane and dangerous.
The parents are beaten down from every quarter and many are older and do not have the physical stamina to control the children. The divorce rate is huge, and the lack of support alienates them from peers. People are uncomfortable with real crazy and they can to get any relief. The children are time bombs, and yet when they explode, it’s a huge surprise. It’s the gun’s fault; it’s the parents; it’s Trump’s fault. Anything but the fact that we don’t want to deal with institutionalizing dangerous people because we are a caring society and never want to return to the evil movie days of “One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest.”
It was a great movie, but it has done more harm to our society than can be imagined. There are some people who are incapable of living in a civil society and they need to be maintained in facilities that are equipped to deal with them. Most are incurable and truly require lifelong care—real care—not some socially acceptable stepping stone to murder.
I’ve seen a few crazy kids in the younger years and it is seriously alarming. Meds can work, but in the long term, they can be a band-aid solution that results in the time-bomb we just witnessed.
There are great parents and teachers that try and cope with these children and there are no easy answers but -isolation to a mental health center or reform school.
These kids can destroy the normal lives of their siblings, parents and school classmates when they are mainstreamed.
While there has always been a tiny percent of the population that suffers from mental illness, the proportion has increased steadily with the advent of parents indulging in recreational drugs during pregnancy.
Parents that are taking all sorts of drugs whether legal or illegal are likely altering there genetic code passed along to their offspring. And if the mother is a drug addict while pregnant, particularly in the early months, the resulting infant’s brain may develop miswired.
I’ve known three parents that adopted newborns from druggie mothers and initially they appeared to be really cute looking little kids. However, all have been a horrible handful requiring 10X the amount of attention and interventions than the rest of their brood. It’s unclear whether the brain can eventually rewire itself towards normalcy as these kids matured to adults.
“Despite years of therapy and innumerable programs, they are insane and dangerous.”
So, is removal from society the most effective way to prevent these types of events? Should we reopen the 800,000 psych ward beds that were closed in the late 1970’s?
You are correct.