Possible Motive Emerges In The Connecticut Shooting

[A Theist]

That was a terrible article summer. I read it the other day; it's despicable...effectively lumping all children with mental health issues into the same camp as people who commit these atrocities. No, the writer of that article is not Adam Lamza's mother; she is not Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris' mother either. She is the mother of a mentally ill son, and should not make the massive assumptions she is making about him.

I would ask that you read some responses to the article, which I think make very good points about why the original author is only contributing to the problem:

http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.c...as-mother/
http://thegirlwhowasthursday.wordpress.c...as-mother/

All I can say is Wow!....unbelievable that a parent could do that to their own child...you know, maybe it's that mother who should be evaluated for a mental illness...no wonder that poor kid has issues....and no telling what that mother maybe creating in her own son...I have to agree Tib, it's despicable!

"He will know about his mother’s post. So will everyone who knows his mother: his teachers, his schoolmates, his friends, his neighbors, his community members. So will millions of strangers. How exactly does this article enhance her son’s functioning? His mental state? His sense of safety? His ability to navigate the world?
It pains me to imagine how he must feel right now to have his private conversations and actions broadcast on the Internet for all to see. It pains me to imagine how he must feel to read some of the horrendous things that people are saying about him.
And yes, his feelings matter. His feelings matter quite a lot. Because he is a child who needs help, and for that help to matter, he has to feel safe, and he has to feel respected, and he has to feel that his private life has boundaries around it.

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For the first, I agree the privacy thing is an issue.

I didn't equate everyone with mental issues into the same camp. Does everyone else have that problem with lumping everyone together? I should think we at least on this board understand that not every atheist is a militant atheist. Or are we the only people capable of seeing in shades of grey?

Nor did I have trouble understanding that not every mass murder spree is the result of psychosis. She wrote it to say that there are people with violent tendencies who need help and aren't getting it.

By reducing ‘mental illness’ to ‘outward behaviour’ the article dehumanises the mentally ill and completely glosses over the inner mental life and experiences of those with mental illness.

Isn't a call to have more help and understanding about these things addressing this issue?

"Isn't a call to have more help and understanding about these things addressing this issue?"....Yes...you're right, absolutely...but for a parent to bring attention to the issue by using their own mentally ill child and publicly lumping him together with mass killers who have mental illnesses is just beyond belief....as was pointed out the boy's school, his teachers, his friends...will read the article...this is not going to have a good impact on that boy.