Posted by Tomatheus on October 5, 2015, at 21:57:11
In reply to Re: Shooters and Psychiatry, posted by SLS on October 5, 2015, at 19:44:39
> Q: Are violent crimes committed by people because of the presence of major mental illness?
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> A: Do antidepressants cause violent crime?
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> I'm not sure.Scott,
I think that as Baseball55 pointed out and as you illustrated with the scenario about Bartholomew that you posted, whether mental illness and/or psychiatric medications cause violent crime is clearly a complex issue. Certainly, when examining the extent to which mental illness and/or psychiatric medications might be a factor in a violent crime, all of the available details need to be closely examined, including factors other than mental illness and the treatment thereof that might have influenced the perpetrator to commit the crime. While there may be cases in which a perpetrator's mental illness seemed to be a driving force in the carrying out of a violent crime, there are probably also a lot of cases where the perpetrator might have received a diagnosis of a mental illness (and also, presumably, some form of treatment) where it isn't quite clear what role the illness and/or the treatment might have played. And to make matters even murkier, psychiatric diagnoses can be questioned. Did the Bartholomew character that you wrote about have a mental illness? You wrote that he didn't, even though it seemed that he likely received a diagnosis of some form of depression from his family doctor. Along with trying to figure out the extent to which a mental illness might play a role in the carrying out of a violent crime, trying to validate the diagnosis is another issue.
Tomatheus
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