I have ASD and I'm Schizoaffective. Knowing what that's like, and having read all the information given to me by my doctors, therapists etc etc, and having gone through so much therapy that I might as well have a cot at the place, I can say it SOUNDS like Schizophrenia. And I base that off the article I posted. People that knew of him say he moved to a cabin in the back of the woods, would go on rants, and when you tried to talk to him, he would be all over the place with different topics and none of it would make sense. That's typical of a schizophrenic, and combined with this rampage, I see nothing wrong with saying what I think it sounds like. That's not me diagnosing him so get off my back.
There is a rule on this forum about not dispensing medical advice, so if you told me that you suspected your child had an ear infection, I would suggest that you check with a doctor to obtain a proper diagnosis. How much more true is that of mental health diagnosis? There is a wide variety of mental health problems, and to diagnose a person from just reading about them is astonishing to me - although not surprising, because many of us have predicted for days that this would end up being the "diagnosis" rather than the other option that the guy is a stone cold terrorist, murdering people because he disagrees with some aspect of their lives. My Bachelor's degree is in Psychology, and my Master's degree is in mental health counseling, and I still would not even pretend that I could diagnose a person from a brief police or journalist's report of what he has supposedly said.
Having a condition makes you an expert only on your own condition, not that of anyone else. He sounds like an extremist terrorist to me, and that's from reading all of the information given to me by experts in the field of terrorism.
I'm not dispensing medical advice as you cited above. I'm saying what a lunatic sounds like he has. Also, the rule is about giving other members medical advice. Is he a member here and I just don't know it?
I wondered whether anyone would ever actually come to the point of saying this, or whether Muslims are just assumed to be either "born evil" or "made evil" by their religion. That seems to me to be the overwhelming view of the majority.
Well of course. That's a vital and major part of my career.
Or you could ask that question about the Boston bombers. But I think they never showed any sign of mental illness. According to the news reports, they were college students who were popular and who everyone said seemed normal. One of them even made it onto the cover of RollingStone Magazine. Here's what that cover looked like:
Neighbors of a few of the Paris attackers said it's scary because the Islamists seemed like completely normal young people. They were all about the party life, booze, and drugs, and the female was big with social media and posted provocative pictures of herself. But they fell to radical Islam.Or you could ask that question about the Boston bombers. But I think they never showed any sign of mental illness. According to the news reports, they were college students who were popular and who everyone said seemed normal. One of them even made it onto the cover of RollingStone Magazine. Here's what that cover looked like:
The point is that, according to media reports, there is never any sign of mental illness with the Islamic terrorists before they do an attack. But when it's a non-Muslim act of terror they typically show a lot of warning signs for mental illness beforehand. It doesn't take a detective or psychiatrist to see the obvious.
