Don't assume school shooters are mentally ill
Posted By: DVC, 5/28/2022 4:41:43 PM
There is a lot of mumbo-jumbo psych talk circulating around the dead bodies in Uvalde, a town I knew pretty well because I consulted frequently with their hospital administrator. I want to remind readers of the problem of personality disorders (P.D.) and distinguish P.D. from mental illness. P.D. is a pattern of anti-social or dysfunctional behavior caused not by mental illness, but by bad manners and bad social adaptation. There are three groups of personality disorders. In the emergency medicine part of my life, I taught residents that P.D.s are the weird, the wild, and the withdrawn.
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Pete Arredondo as ‘a coward’ in wake
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The Texas cop under scrutiny for how he handled the response to the Uvalde school massacre stayed out of sight under police protection Saturday — while an angry neighbor slammed him as a “coward.”
Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo made the call that the carnage at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday had gone from an “active shooter” situation to a “barricaded suspect” standoff, which a top state cop admitted was “the wrong decision.”
State investigators are probing whether Arredondo even had a police radio on him when he made the decision, a law enforcement source told The Post.
Police waited more than a half-hour to breach the door to two classrooms
There is a lot of mumbo-jumbo psych talk circulating around the dead bodies in Uvalde, a town I knew pretty well because I consulted frequently with their hospital administrator.
I want to remind readers of the problem of personality disorders (P.D.) and distinguish P.D. from mental illness.
P.D. is a pattern of anti-social or dysfunctional behavior caused not by mental illness, but by bad manners and bad social adaptation. There are three groups of personality disorders. In the emergency medicine part of my life, I taught residents that P.D.s are the weird, the wild, and the withdrawn.
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Even then, their movement doesn't seek a revolution of the marginalized.
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Other women wore their concealed weapons in less provocative places, such as under their armpits and stashed in fashionable purses.
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An interesting discussion of personality disorders....which seems to apply to most of the leftists, in general.