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Orlando shooting suspect mentally ill
Jason Rodriguez killed one person and wounded five others at an engineering firm in Orlando, Florida. His lawyer says Rodriguez is mentally ill. Hours earlier stressed-out army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas and wounded 30 others. Much is being made of the fact that he is a Muslim but he may have been taking the same drugs he handed out to stressed-out soldiers every day. A few weeks ago Warren mom Tanya Friedly received a 6-year sentence for drugging and attempting to burn her two children. She did accomplish burning down her house. DetNews quoted Friedly's mom as saying her daughter may have suffered a breakdown last fall after she began taking new medications for depression and anxiety, her boyfriend lost his job and she was faced with losing her home to foreclosure. How is it that every time somebody goes on a mass murder/suicide rampage like Columbine or Virginia Tech, they are on some sort of psychiatric drug or being treated or recently treated in the mental health system? Maybe today's psychiatric drugs which carry Black Box warnings that they can cause people to commit suicide, homicide and violent acts are just gasoline we are pouring on the mental health fire. No wonder things are getting worse. The treatment isn't working.
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