Your replies unsympathetic? Don't make yourself any discount! You simply show ignorance for what mental illnesses are, and arrogance for assuming you have understood it all. I just wish one day you will be able to know how wrong you were.
All of you that don't understand how he could do that to his beloved family...isn't the fact that he did it explicative enough of his mental state?
I suggest "Darkness visible" by William Styron for those who are interested on the subject.
I have spent years to study on the subject, since I was researching for my graduation thesis which was about a writer that committed suicide. One thing I have understood is that when you are in this mental state your perception of reality is completely wrong , and your decisions distorted. Think of the mothers who kill their children because they don't want them to suffer. It is like living through distorting glasses. Your brain is working through delusions. That is why we cannot judge or understand what was going through this poor guy's mind. We think we can because we rationalise, but of course OUR brain is working straight, while his was not. I am sure he thought he was doing his family a favor, or something like that
Last edited by flyblue; 23rd April 2002 at 08:27.