Someone from the Dermond thread said I should drop in over here, as I work at a psychiatric treatment facility for kids 6-18yo. I haven't had time to go back and read everything about ER, but his youtube videos were jarring to me.
I have to admit that my first thoughts were who initially influenced his views on women? Extreme views like that don't just appear out of nowhere. I don't want to blame his parents, but in the cases of kids I work with, it very often goes back to some sort of severe family dysfunction, trauma/abuse, neglect, or having really poor examples as parents.
It's not their fault AT ALL that he did this, and I know they did all they could to help. I'm sure a lot of this is biological, but there also had to be some unhealthy but strong influences in his life that made things worse.
If anyone has any questions about residential facilities aka "placements," please feel free to ask while I catch up on all this!
I responded to this particular post though because I have had a bad experience with LE officers in relation to mental health when I was the victim in a domestic violence situation. It's a very long story, but I wrestled a loaded shotgun gun from this persons hands after he had destroyed half our house with a baseball bat and thought I was going to end up dead. I begged the officers to have him assessed, but they refused because he wasn't telling THEM he was suicidal. When he realized the cops were coming, he actually hid the gun and tried to leave the house. When they arrived, he turned on the charm to a degree that was disturbing. I could hear him just chattin' it up about random guy stuff with the other officer while I was writing my statement sobbing in our ransacked home. He destroyed four house phones and threw my cell phone in the yard when I tried to call 911/they tried to call back.
That situation made me lose nearly all my faith in our current mental health system, and in the legal system's ability to deal with mental illness or protect victims of domestic violence. Dealing with the cops and later, the legal system, was almost more traumatizing than the incident itself.
I think LE officers hands are tied in many situations they shouldn't be, and they also need much better training. Psychopaths are incredibly charming and manipulative.
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I can't quite grasp how anyone who is schooled and trained to look for mental disease and/or defect could be so manipulated by someone like ER. They're trained to catch these things.
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Why is it so hard to grasp? Schooled and trained professions fail every day in all fields even when at expert levels. Quite a bit fail especially in the Medical and Psychiatric fields. Some people earn degrees, train for many years but if they lack certain things in themselves all the schooling and training in the world might not matter. They can answer text book questions and get all the answer correct but sometimes that is not enough IMHO. Example my sister went to school many years, she has been a CPA for years but has never been able to keep a job as a CPA. She has done well working as a state auditor. She use to come to my husband to do her taxes , he trained himself and is a whiz at it. I tease her all the time that CPA in her case means Certified Pain in the A$$. In the Psychiatric fields if you lack common sense, or aren't a people person, many reasons. Some times a persons own life experiences is the best teacher.JMO