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Originally Posted by AGDee
My gut instinct is that the Chinese see mental illness as a family shame and hide it.
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I think you are pretty bang on. Tell us what your contact said. I am interested to hear his/her take on it.
As for the Baltimore Sun story, that kid was battered for years and years at the hands of his father. He was traumatized but I wouldn't say he was mentally ill.
Whereas, at the Virginia Tech beheading, it sounds like the 2 students barely knew each other and the Greyhound Case, it was completely out of the blue (the murder victim was sleeping and listening to his IPod). Maybe some people are born with a defect in their brains and makes them act out so violently or think that they perceive some threat to their own person. And sadly, I cannot see that any amount of "screening" will ever be able to prevent this.
And with that note, I am off to bed.