While on active duty I was involved with cases in which the soldier had psychotic breaks. It is not always pretty, and in some cases it’s downright dangerous.
I believe this kid is crazy as a loon — no offense meant — and that he should be locked up in a mental hospital. He’s obviously a danger to others and to himself.
How is that different than being in prison?
I understand what you’re saying.
I am personally aware of two people in our distant family who were victims of schizophrenia in their early twenties. One is still living in a mental facility and the other has passed on.
They both made occasional visits home, are on medications and I wouldn’t consider it the same as being in prison. I guess there’s always hope for enough improvement to lead a fairly normal life.
Two things here that resulted in this happening. First, he was obviously schizophrenic but the drugs they gave him were NOT for treating it but for depression. Worse yet the drugs they gave him have a history of making people into homicidal maniacs (Columbine, Virginia Tech, etc). So this was the worst possible thing that they could have done and then to push him even harder when they put him back on duty. Somebody should be court martialed but it isn’t him, its the idiots that prescribed those drugs to him and the commanding officer that gave him a gun and put him back on duty! I’m actually surprised that he only killed the Taliban guy and not everyone else that was nearby.
I suppose you could think of a mental institution as a prison.
Except in prison you are stuffed in a cell, medicated into catatonia, and forgotten. No help, no resources. No one there is really going to give a flying rat's rear.
Perhaps in a mental facility the access to CARE--doctors, nurses, counselors, and FAMILY-- would be much more substantial.
Prison is negative reinforcement.
I would hope a mental facility could attempt some positive reinforcement.