Monday, July 10, 2017

Antisocial behavior, threats and the mental health conundrum

Recently there have been two high profile murders in New York. 
One murder was that of a female doctor, within a hospital. At the hospital, the murderer had been sexually inappropriate with women and had his employment terminated two years ago. Before leaving he threatened to return to the hospital and “kill them.” 
 The murder gave people the ultimate middle finger by killing himself. He seemed to feel or think that murdering others and then himself signified that he was in control.


The killer of the police officer apparently had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, paranoid type. He also had not taken his medication for a while.

These are only 2 examples of killings that populate the news.

My question is have we become so disconnected from each other, from Source Emotional Energy that we need to feel the need to control or destroy others? That we need to use mental health or lack of it as an excuse for anti-social behavior?

Some apparently think the mental  health diagnosis explains their antisocial behavior. I have met therapists who try to figure out  what bad experience in a persons past could have made the person anti-social. Seems to me like a foolish quest. Could their mental health or lack of it be a choice of how to relate or not relate? As we continue on our life journey, our choices become a life style. The two men who committed the murders seem to have chosen a narcissistic disconnected life style.

The other thought that is important. A threat is as  dangerous as a physical assault. If we are renting space in our thoughts and feelings of threatening someone, there is a fine line between issuing the threat and caring out the threat. If the person does not do what we wish, then to satisfy our ego, we wind up acting out the threat.


In my opinion, it is important each night before we go to bed and  each morning before we get out of bed, that we ask Source Energy (God) to bring into our life only people who will be  helpful to us. I do  believe that Source will answer our prayer and keep people who seek to do evil, to harm us out of our path.

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