JAMA Psychiatry: Mass Violence and the Complex Spectrum of Mental Illness and Mental Functioning

[SheltieLover]

2. Imho, they need to add toxic masculinity as a diagnosis

That sense of entitlement & belief that causing pain to others somehow elevates themselves.

This is transgenerational. It's how many families rear their offspring.

Solve disputes with your fists, or guns.

I believe this is pervasive in our society.

How often does someone say to you, "Well, if it makes you feel any better..." then recount some malady they have experienced or heard about?

My answer is always "no. Wth would I feel better knowing someone else is suffering or had a bad day?" Truly surreal!

Mental health care is largely absent in rural areas, even with the trend of telemedicine brought about by the pandemic.

When kids are bullying in school, they and their families should immediately be placed into Multisystemic Therapy, an intensive, evidence based form of therapy. As far as I know, this is the ONLY form of therapy shown to be effective in stopping thd progression of oppositionally defiant kids to conduct disorder to antosocial personality disorder to eventual prison.

But most families are highly resistant to such an approach, as this model looks at and seeks to change the entire family unit.

Think of a mobile that hangs over an infant's crib as a representation of the family unit. If you touch one part, all parts move, or are disrupted. This can be quite uncomfortable for those unwilling to face their own demons.

A family genogram might bring these sorts of tendancies to consciousness, but where & when does that happen? It takes hours to put one together, discuss it, & process it in therapy. Therapy that is largely nonexistent in many parts of the country.

And therapy which, if not court ordered will never be engaged in or complied with.

Dysfunctional caregivers are experts at snapping back their rubber fences to protect their own behaviors.

Consider this: why aren't Psych & Human Growth & Development middle school & high school requirements nationwide?

Encouraging and supporting kids from young ages to live consciously & teaching them to engage in discourse rather than act out violently would go a long way to heal our society, imo.

Thx for the thread!