Why so many Americans today are 'mentally ill'

World Net Daily ^ | 14 Aug 07 | David Kupelian

[SkyPilot]

"When I was lying in my bed that night, I couldn’t sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them."

You're reading the words of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, struggling to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability in his turbulent life. He was angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them.

"I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can’t do anything to stop it."

[grey_whiskers]

A species of sea slug has a couple of relatively huge and simple neurons that are easy to work with in the lab.

OH!!! (light bulb comes on)

The Daily Kos!

Cheers!

[GOPJ]

We are talking about human beings who have somehow developed a secret inner life dominated by exceedingly dark thoughts and compulsions. Wild mood swings. Horrible, consuming resentment teetering on the edge of violent frenzy. Paranoid delusions fueled by intense emotion. Satanic visitations and inner voices that torment people mercilessly, sometimes for years, commanding them to commit murder or suicide -- or both.

Does this really sound to you like a physiological problem in need of drugs? Sound like a disease? A biochemical imbalance in the brain? Neurotransmitter activity that's too sluggish?

Or does it possibly sound like something much more mental-emotional, even spiritual, in origin?

If evil is real - and I believe it is - are these drugs unlocking a gate to the soul?

[GOPJ]

I’m sorry to hear about your mother. Her pain must have been awful. And then harder on all of you. My prayers are with you. And you’re right - our “experts” don’t have a clue.

[SkyPilot]

Many thanks - I appreciate that.

I found out later in life I wasn't the only one who had gone through something like this.

I discovered that many families and people I had come across in the course of my life have also experienced a loved one or friend that had serious mental illness problems.

The worst of these are when the family member is violent. CNN recently did a special about these. The problem is, certain states will give the mental patient a lot of "rights": such as a "right" to walk out of the facility and a "right" to stop taking their medication.

In a few cases (and CNN reported these) a mentally ill son will murder his mom or dad, or some other tragedy will unfold.

We just don't institutionalize the mentally ill in this nation like we used to.

In my mother's case, she was not violent per se, but I remember holding her down or struggling when she her episodes became psychotic (for lack of a better term).

I didn't like to have friends over during my high school years, as you can probably imagine.

[SkyPilot]

If evil is real - and I believe it is - are these drugs unlocking a gate to the soul?

Great question. I just don't really know.

I do know that evil is real. If you ever spent any inordinate amount of time with certain people who are classified as mentally ill, you get a definite feeling (at least I did) that they were tormented and tortured in a very "unearthly" manner.

The article at the link describes it very accurately - at least it did for me.

For years I didn't even want to think about it, much less talk about it.

It is akin to looking into the face of someone you love, and seeing a horror mask out of a terrifying movie on that same face.