Worth the read. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-mental-illness-conversation_n_2311009.html

Here's a bit of it.

That's interesting. When I saw that 'I am Adam's Mother' was in quotes, I immediately knew it was NOT written by his mother. I guess everyone didn't read it that way. Because it was in quotes, I assumed it meant she wasn't his mother sort of how you put "lovely" in quotes when, I think, you were attempting to be ironic. Isn't that what they call a scare quote??

"Thank you for pointing out what is wrong with the US media."

After reading the article, I can't imagine going through life being afraid of my child and not being able to get him or her help and to have an escape plan to keep your other children safe. What a horrible situation. I can't imagine how helpless and hopeless she feels.

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We must consider how much violent video games and movies influence our culture. Certainly graphic violence is shown in extreme realism and glorified by Hollywood. And it could be argued that the media glorifies the sick psychotic killers. They certainly endow them enormous fame.

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I reiterate: violent video games have never been shown to cause violence, have never been linked to violence. there's not a single definitive study showing otherwise. same with movies, books, plays and other forms of art and self expression protected by the first amendment.

I stated in other forums this kid had some type of mental illness. I have heard a personality disorder tody i heard azpergers syndrome. To me both are highly unlikely. I was a psychiatric music therapist prior to going into education. I did not go of my own free will but was forc due to the state doing away with my position becasue it was no longer needed. In La. we now have 2 state run mental facillities. the closest to New Orleans is 160 miles away. The other a little farther. tell me where if you have a problem like this do you go for help. We now do psych. treatment by comittee, but we will spend millions to treat addicts who really show no desire to change. Before anyone gets bent out of shape I am in recovery so I know you have to make that decision yourself noone can make it for you. I believe this young man was a budding schizoprenic and for those who have ever had a family member with that type of disorder they will scare you to death at times. The action was certainly a psychotic act and not the work of a simpe personaity disorder or simple depression who would in most cases take any aggression out on themselves. Garza while it hasnt been proven and you are correct it hasnt been, i truly do believe the media ppl are exposed to can have a negative effect on behavior if they have a tendency to not separate reality from fantasy. We can show a buiding getting blown up with ppl jumping from windows or a drive-by with blood and gore and guts all over the place but God forbit we light a cigareete in a movie now that would be the end of civilization as we know it. We keep trying to over simplify things it aint that simple.

If you grant assault weapons access to a mentally challenged person or even have them in your house around an unbalanced family member, not only are you insane, but also partly responsible for their actions.

You can almost feel her anguish in that article. If I had just put the title of the thread as a mentally unbalanced mother speaks out, no one would have read or cared. This got the attention that she needs. Man, I hope she gets help. Can you imagine how the other children feel and what it must be like for them growing up in this household?

This story is NOT about Adam Lanza's mother or her situation with her son."

why not stick with the facts, are they not wierd enough.

This.

The lady that wrote this was speaking metaphorically when she says "I am Adam Lanza's mother" All of us with children, and even those without, can empathize with the parents that lost children in this horrific tragedy. We can easily see ourselves as the mothers and fathers of these innocent children that were killed. This woman can easily see herself as the mother of these murderers. When these tragedies happen, she must look at the killer and say to herself, "that could be my kid".

How hard it must be to look at your own child and see the potential for evil? Or the the capability of a massacre? This woman is brave, she's doing what no mother would want to do. She's locking up her own kid in order to protect YOUR kid and MY kid. At the expense of her own peace of mind. She's taking a danger off the streets, putting him somewhere that will keep her awake at night wondering how he's being treated. But she's not going to let other parents bury their own kid because of violence commited by her's. Because it's the RIGHT thing to do.

I have no idea why there seems to be more "insane/mentally despondent/physcologically unbalanced" people in the world. Is it the same percentage but we have so many more poeple? Don't know. But somehow we need to make it ok for parents to seek help when they see danger in the own kids.

If we see our neighbors or coworkers commit her son to a mental institution, would we judge her? "What a horrible mother to do that to her own kid", we'd say. "How can she just throw away her own kid like that" "I can't believe she just abandoned him like that."

Until we make real mental health not have that kind of stigma, this kind of shit will continue to happen. We can talk about gun control all we want. It is said the the biggest sexual organ in the human body is the brain. No matter how big a guy's dick is, his brain is what seduces a woman. The same logic applies here, whatever is wrong in a person's brain that allows him to even consider acts such as these, is what needs to be studied and understood.

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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates

Violent video games do not seem to increase violent behavior for the typical person. But the whole gun control debate isn't about the typical person. It is the small number who are violent and mentally ill.

I don't think that the militaristic styling of guns like the Bushmaster leads people to go on rampages either, not by itself.

But put the whole package together, a person with a violent predisposition, a video game in which the hero goes shooting down opponents and in the real world body armor that makes the player feel invulnerable and a gun that makes them feel like they are in the game.

It is that package that is the problem. We are certainly not going to be controlling video games before we control guns. But the video games certainly fuel the gun-nut culture.

The problem is not the fantasy, the problem is the gun-nut industry and their enablers who are trying to erase all boundaries between the fantasy and real life.

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Good find WMM.

Sorry Garza but how can you say that? Ever checked your own words by checking Google for example ?
There are many studies which proof there is definitaly a link between violent movies/ games and agressive behaviour/ thoughts.

Here some studies, the 2 last ones are like articles and easy to read, the 1st is a study a bit long, but read the introduction ;) ;

This one is from 2001; http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/VideoGames1.pdf

2010; http://www.ithp.org/articles/violentvideogames.html

2011; http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/02/how-playing-violent-video-games-may-change-the-brain/

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Why? Does the fact that I have rifles that are the mechanical equal to hers make me insane? Does the fact that I have rifles that are far more powerful than hers make me insane? Or does it make me a sportsman and a hobbyist who is into outdoor activities?



Well, there's your answer. Logically if having those weapons makes you insane, it is illegal for you to own those kinds of weapons, meaning, of course, that if you do own those kinds of weapons that is prima facie evidence that you are insane and not allowed to own those weapons. Give them up now.

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Sorry Garza but how can you say that? Ever checked your own words by checking Google for example ?
There are many studies which proof there is definitaly a link between violent movies/ games and agressive behaviour/ thoughts.

Here some studies, the 2 last ones are like articles and easy to read, the 1st is a study a bit long, but read the introduction ;) ;

This one is from 2001; http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/VideoGames1.pdf


so how do you explain the huge explosion in gaming over recent years and a steady decline in violence among youths. With all gaming wouldn't violence be increasing? Only it's not because they dot cause violence.

your 2010 post has absolutely no facts in it. Only speculation and opens with quotes from the 70s. And the 2011 post below seems to discuss desensitization

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Mental_Health_Letter/2010/October/violent-video-games-and-young-people

"•Much of the research on violent video game use relies on measures to assess aggression that don't correlate with real-world violence. Some studies are observational and don't prove cause and effect.

•Federal crime statistics suggest that serious violent crimes among youths have decreased since 1996, even as video game sales have soared."

http://m.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/violent-games-dont-really-beget-violence-20120505-1y5j0.html

so all those "studies" showing increased agressvive brain function don't actually show any real long term affect. it's no different than claiming horror movies breeds cannibals, or trains women to be submissive victims to men in masks, anyone who says that would sound silly. Violent videogame sales up, violent crimes among youths who play said violent video games down. So how do games cause violence? logic would dictate they don't. As many of us who already play videogames already know.

in fact more research and compiled date show that video games may actually reduce violent crimes because these so called "violent gamers" are too busy having fun and being entertained virtually to go out and commit crime in the real world, if that weren't true why isn't violent crime increasing exponentially in correlation to the sale of violent AAA titles purchased by millions.

http://m.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/violent-games-dont-really-beget-violence-20120505-1y5j0.html