I feel for this guy...
Trauma rejection from both birth parents by being put up for adoption.
Trauma rejection when adoptive father died.
Trauma rejection when adoptive mother died.
Trauma rejection when thrown out of school.
Trauma rejection apparently when girlfriend dumped him.
That’s a lot for a young person to deal with.
This young man was also a cutter or self mutilator. That is a strong indication that he is carrying deep seated guilt. I have often found in children and adults a reversal of the emotional subconscious reward/punishment system. These people are positively stimulated by criticism or punishment and negatively stimulated by praise.
The Florida young man is an excellent example. Children blame themselves for events in their lives even though it is not their fault. If the child blamed himself for being rejected by the birth mother when put up for adoption, the adoptive father dying and then the adoptive mother dying, the guilt internalized is extreme. Children view themselves as the center of their universe and the cause of events in their life, even when they are not the cause.(I find this frequently in young children when the parents get divorced. The children blame themselves for the parent’s divorce and act out to get punished to remove the self imposed guilt they are carrying.)
Thus Cruz felt he deserved punishment to get rid of the self imposed guilt. This is the reason for acting out while the mother was dying and the self mutilating behavior.
The shooting event was the extreme acting out to obtain the ultimate punishment.
If the child is not in an environment where they are punished, they will often do it internally through immune system suppression which in turn results in disease later in life.
I have found this reversal in 100% of the MS cases I have worked with.(It amazed me that often the extreme symptoms began when the person with MS was on their honeymoon with an excellent new spouse.) Only good people get MS as they beat themselves up internally.
All of the indications are that the young man who did the shooting in Florida was carrying extreme guilt, incorrectly blaming himself for the losses of the people he loved in his life. His extreme actions were the ultimate way for him to get the punishment he subconsciously felt he deserved.
Solomon, who was a lot smarter than you, described this type sans therapy:
“Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
let us ambush the innocent without reason;
like Sheol let us swallow them alive,
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
we shall find all precious goods,
we shall fill our houses with plunder;
throw in your lot among us;
we will all have one purse”
—Proverbs 1
Jude simply labeled it “the way of Cain”. Envy and festering anger work together to produce murder. That’s what really happened here, however sad-sack the perpetrator.
Wonder what the period of time between his birth mother giving him up and his long term parents.
Reactive attachment disorder is strong in some institutionalized adopted kids. They don’t really seem to attach to their new family.
And the institutionalized brother in the mix. They had to be adopted together.
“Children view themselves as the center of their universe and the cause of events in their life”
LOL! Read my middle school and high school diaries when my daughter started to getting hormonal. I was so embarrassed. I can’t believe my parents let me live! LOL!