• Tedesche
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    -183 days ago

    Schizophrenia.

    • @[email protected]
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      183 days ago

      Schizophrenia seldom manifests as racist attacks involving firearms. More often that’s a different DSM-4 category, “being a murderous fascist.”

      • @warbond
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        63 days ago

        We’re on the DSM 5 now, they recategorized that one to just “brain damage: fascist”

    • @Bacano
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      22 days ago

      Legit response, your down votes are undeserved lol

    • @ThePyroPython
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      73 days ago

      Ah, so it stated that in the article or you’re a qualified psychiatrist?

      • @[email protected]
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        13 days ago

        Kind of two different things. You didn’t ask what mental health emergency he was specifically having, you asked what kind would explain it. That would definitely explain it

        • @Goodmorningsunshine
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          52 days ago

          Being a racist schizophrenic who murders people still makes you a racist murderer. He certainly targeted a perceived race he hated.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 day ago

            It explains it, it doesn’t excuse it. If your brain snaps and suddenly you perceive something as a rational thing to do you don’t really have control at that point. Basically just points to punishment or treatment, not a get out of jail card.

      • Tedesche
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        -83 days ago

        I’m a therapist.

        • @horse_battery_staple
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          13 days ago

          Please rethink that career path.

          Every defense lawyer in a shooting case is going to claim mental duress in a shooting.

          People who commit racially motivated crimes don’t get the benefit of the doubt.

          Does this man have a history of mental health problems? Are they under the care and supervision of a mental health provider? Are they taking anti psychotic meds?

          If any of those statements are true, what were they doing in possession of a firearm in the first place?

          • Tedesche
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            -12 days ago

            All those questions deserve proper investigation. I was not excusing this man from his crimes, merely pointing out his lawyer was claiming he’d had a mental health crisis and that they should be investigated.

            And I’m a pretty damn good therapist so I think I’m gonna keep it up. Maybe you should just go fuck yourself?