Adam Lanza was diagnosed with OCD

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I don't think society has any idea the number of undiagnosed people are running around this world with OCD. I would say that everyone probably knows someone who has undiagnosed OCD and or BPD. Neither of these conditions are uncommon. Nor are a multitude of other mental and physical conditions that have a possibility of manifesting in some form of violence.

Something happened to him. I'd be inclined to ask what drugs was he on. Anytime the media keeps talking about someone like this, there is another story or they are trying to drill something into people's brains. A story.

He once had eyes that had a sparkle. He once had a bright smile.





WTF really happened?






A picture is worth a thousand words.

WOW!! !!

Yes, one very compelling argument.

Now, can we all (and I do mean ALL) please stop looking for a demographic to demonize so that we can conveniently avoid the uncomfortable truth that ANYONE can make the choice to become a killer, and EVERYONE has to make the choice not to??

I have been feeling more bitter and cynical than ever since the Sandy Hook tragedy, though I guess I've always been pretty spiteful and unforgiving. The reactions of a lot of people to this tragedy, and some of the previous tragedies, has really opened my eyes up to how bigoted, asinine, and barbaric a lot of Americans really are. I guess things aren't really any better in most of the rest of the world though. It makes me glad to be an extreme introvert.

I will never again trust a psychologically and neurologically normal person enough to let them into my inter circle of friends, which currently only includes one person. I also refuse to speak to a therapist, unless they are disordered or impaired in someway that I can relate to. It's kind of depressing at times; to feel alone in my thoughts and struggles in life, but I always manage to pull through. I won't risk worsening my situation by placing trust in some normal person. Even if I was willing to take that risk, I'm too avoidant to actually seek out any support.

My situation is often rough, though it wouldn't seem that way to someone on the outside looking in. The causes of my suffering are unconventional, and could not be understood by the vast majority of people; I can't even really understand them myself. A lot of the time my circumstances in life seem great, though I don't feel great. I have so many great moments in life, yet at the end of most days my life still feels meaningless, because I realize that my default state of mind is still bad, and is only going to get worse.

I don't plan on ever lashing out and killing someone, though if I ever do, I can promise that it will be for personal reasons and not random. I don't ever want my family or anyone else I know to see my posts on this forum, as a result of the investigation that it would result in. I hope that no one I know ever gets to know me that well, yet at the same type it's kind of depressing how many things there are about me that no one I know knows. That's always been my situation in life though, so I don't give too much thought to it.

I sometimes think about how good a lot of normal people have things, but not usually, because their lives seem so irrelevant to mine. Their ignorance and negligence towards people who are in anyway less fortunate than themselves sometimes angers me, then I realize that in many ways it seems that I am very fortunate, so I discredit this anger as being unreasonable. I'm honestly not really sure how to feel, so I just try not to think about it. Regardless, it seems that the American public's attitudes towards people like myself are unreasonably cold-blooded, and I really resent that. I can see how that could make someone want to inflict extreme pain on someone enough that they'd actually be willing to act on it, but that someone would have to be a lot worse off than myself.

Anyway, I'm probably going to be leaving the forum for good now. I've said that I would before, but now I think that I'm really going to do it. I feel that it is helping to enable my sense of negativity. I will go vent my frustration in private instead, then maybe I will have less frustration to begin with.

He seems to fit the "pseudocommando" profile - similar to the Virginia Tech Shooter. Psychosis might or might not have been a factor - difficult to say.

As much as I hate to say it, this particular type of shooting is stereotypically linked to loners/outcasts and autism could be a risk factor, due to the increased risk of rejection and feelings of worthlessness.

OCD is a non-issue in my opinion. More important is his support system and relation with peers and self-esteem.

As one final comment, I'd like to stress how complex personality types are. There are people who have sympathy but not empathy, there are people who have compassion but not sympathy, there are people who have benevolence but not compassion, there who people who desire to do good but aren't benevolent, there are people who wish they desired to do good but don't, there are people who don't wish they desired to do good but aren't purely ill-willed, there are people who are purely ill-willed but don't desire to act on it, and there are people who desire to act on it but don't. On this forum, we rarely see people beyond the first few of these tiers of perceived negativity. There isn't a very large of degree of separation from one category to the next, but they're all significant. No matter what traits are thrust upon someone, they ultimately have the choice as to how they're going to react to those traits. I just felt like saying this, but I won't further elaborate on it because I'm leaving now.