▲ 395 ▼ Heavily-armed man kills himself, rather than shoot up Colorado amusement park, authorities say (denvergazette.com) submitted 2 years ago by YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 118 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] rosymind@leminal.space 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've been wondering if a brain tumor was the Maine mass shooters problem as well. We'll probably never know permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) In my neurology class Whitman was the only case of the tumor clearly being a major driving factor. I'm not saying the class was entirely comprehensive, or that the other cases were not medically-driven. The other cases we studied were psychologically driven (mental disorders) rather than physiological (e.g. tumor/cancer/head-trauma). I just wanted to say the tumor case might not be as likely as one might think. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rosymind@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Thanks for your input. Where are you going to school/did you go to school? How did you like your neurology class? Sidenote: I hope that someday we are able to look at most psychological disorders as physiological disorders. I feel like more people would get the help that they need, (and society would be more accepting of it) if we looked at it through that lense instead of thinking of it like something people have complete control over by themselves. The brain is another organ, after all permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago It was the University of Texas at Dallas! The class was fantastic. Not only changed my understanding of how brains work, but changed it beyond what I thought was even possible. I agree I think there is a very very gray line between physiological and psychological. There are some differences to be had, like tumors are actually just straight malicious, while disorders like psychopathy, ADHD, and autism can be argued to be different rather than strictly unhealthy (psychopaths make better soldiers, people with ADHD can be great in emergency rooms, people with autism can have all kinds of prodigy-like gifts). But many disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia are pretty much all unhealthly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) In my neurology class Whitman was the only case of the tumor clearly being a major driving factor. I'm not saying the class was entirely comprehensive, or that the other cases were not medically-driven. The other cases we studied were psychologically driven (mental disorders) rather than physiological (e.g. tumor/cancer/head-trauma). I just wanted to say the tumor case might not be as likely as one might think. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rosymind@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Thanks for your input. Where are you going to school/did you go to school? How did you like your neurology class? Sidenote: I hope that someday we are able to look at most psychological disorders as physiological disorders. I feel like more people would get the help that they need, (and society would be more accepting of it) if we looked at it through that lense instead of thinking of it like something people have complete control over by themselves. The brain is another organ, after all permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago It was the University of Texas at Dallas! The class was fantastic. Not only changed my understanding of how brains work, but changed it beyond what I thought was even possible. I agree I think there is a very very gray line between physiological and psychological. There are some differences to be had, like tumors are actually just straight malicious, while disorders like psychopathy, ADHD, and autism can be argued to be different rather than strictly unhealthy (psychopaths make better soldiers, people with ADHD can be great in emergency rooms, people with autism can have all kinds of prodigy-like gifts). But many disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia are pretty much all unhealthly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rosymind@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Thanks for your input. Where are you going to school/did you go to school? How did you like your neurology class? Sidenote: I hope that someday we are able to look at most psychological disorders as physiological disorders. I feel like more people would get the help that they need, (and society would be more accepting of it) if we looked at it through that lense instead of thinking of it like something people have complete control over by themselves. The brain is another organ, after all permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago It was the University of Texas at Dallas! The class was fantastic. Not only changed my understanding of how brains work, but changed it beyond what I thought was even possible. I agree I think there is a very very gray line between physiological and psychological. There are some differences to be had, like tumors are actually just straight malicious, while disorders like psychopathy, ADHD, and autism can be argued to be different rather than strictly unhealthy (psychopaths make better soldiers, people with ADHD can be great in emergency rooms, people with autism can have all kinds of prodigy-like gifts). But many disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia are pretty much all unhealthly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago It was the University of Texas at Dallas! The class was fantastic. Not only changed my understanding of how brains work, but changed it beyond what I thought was even possible. I agree I think there is a very very gray line between physiological and psychological. There are some differences to be had, like tumors are actually just straight malicious, while disorders like psychopathy, ADHD, and autism can be argued to be different rather than strictly unhealthy (psychopaths make better soldiers, people with ADHD can be great in emergency rooms, people with autism can have all kinds of prodigy-like gifts). But many disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia are pretty much all unhealthly. permalink fedilink source parent