Reply #44: Seems like he was really crying out for help too... [View All]

[dxstone]

Haven't seen his postings yet, but the video, the name he signed it with, other names he used on post... it's quite apparent that he needed something there, and that he didn't get it...
I am disgusted by the overuse of pharmaceuticals in this country today, ESPECIALLY with kids (though I think the problems much broader than that, and that modern psychology is at least partially a pseudoscience used quite a lot as a political tool, a way to deny the very REAL problems many people face, to mask their truly deep and often political nature in a pretense of personal difficulties--because even when this system breaks people down, we don't all break at the same rate of speed... so they can deal with each on a personal basis, one by one, using a lot of theory and psychobabble to convince victims of intolerable stress that it is THEIR fault, that the problem is not real at all but simply "all in their minds"... IMHO.)
But as noted earlier in this thread, the misdiagnosing and overprescribing of these drugs is particularly pernicious in the case of kids...
It's easy for fearful and ignorant people to cast the boy as a monster.
But ALL monsters are tragic... it is in fact their very nature.
And in nearly all cases of the truly horrifyingly tragic such as he, we can see a larger, more universal pattern that makes this continuing cycle all the more tragic still:
In EVERY case, there's always a lack of love, a lack of warm human connection with some, indeed, ANY other.
You can manufacture serial killers, make 'em right to order. It's EASY. Just take a child when they're born, remove 'em from any warm human interaction for the first two weeks, keep 'em in a warm incubator but deny 'em the comforting caress of mother or caring nurse of either sex (it doesn't matter), and voila!... instant psychopath.
Love is the most important thing, the greatest force in the universe.
It's so easy to give, costs you nothing... and when you give it away, it makes you stronger and larger and more luminous than before...
It is The Force. It is all we ever really need; every other impossible challenge can be faced and even impossibly surmounted when love is a vital component of the individual life. In this sense, then, it is our GREATEST need... and yet for some impenetrable reason, some perversity of the human animal, so many people are still so goddamned stingy with it.
When the hell is the human race EVER gonna wake up already?
But as you said, Molly, it is nice that so many here seem to 'get' what evades so many others who need to judge and label and condemn...
A terrible tragedy.
And no, it has not gotten nearly enough attention on these pages, especially when compared to some conspicuous others...
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