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Father left to pick up the pieces after entire family killed in mass stabbing (www.nelsonstar.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

But all was not well with De-Zoysa, who was ... having thoughts of suicide, Suneetha said.

This never makes any sense to me. How do you go from wanting to kill yourself to killing everyone around you, including children?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Psychotic depression, or psychosis episode by some undiagnosed issue, altered state due to substance/meds mix… the mind is a fragile thing. I’ll (hopefully) never fully understand it, but it can happen to “regular” people, given some mix of circumstances.

    Sometimes they’re also just killers with a death wish 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Whatever his problem, he's the only one who made it out unharmed. It wasn't a murder suicide, or suicide by cop, or regular suicide. I make no excuses for this coward.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    The father who lost his whole family is the only one we can realistically think about right now, we don’t know much about the other guy and what happened for him to go down that spiral. Sounds like guy was stopped and fought with the dad, so maybe interrupted plans. Or again, he may just be a murderer who took his chance.

    I thought you were asking a general question, not specifically this case. I was therefore answering generally.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Trying to make sense of what's happening inside the thoughts of a mentally ill person is futile in my experience.

    The mental illness causes their thought process to operate in ways that are not necessarily logical or consistant.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Lord only knows. Speaking from personal experience I'm an externalizer so I've never had a thought of suicide however I have been on the record telling people there are times when I wish everyone else was dead.

    I think it's the end result that sought after not the action itself. To be alone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Suicidal thoughts and homicidal thoughts are very similar to each other. Even if we think of it as "harming only yourself to harming everyone but yourself" our brains think of it as "harm a human" and the target is just switched. Plus, harming everyone around you and getting sentenced to life in prison is arguably a greater "self sabotage" than suicide.

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