I live to serve. ❤️

Personally, I’d prefer to fight 100 duck-sized horses over one horse-sized duck. But that’s just me.

Sadly that makes two of us.

I appreciate the kind words. Thank you. I love what I do and I know that my colleagues feel the same (or we wouldn’t be in this clusterfuck that is mental health). But homegirl isn’t legit psychotic.

Medicine doesn’t fix this, sorry.

My issue is that those who are ill usually cannot plan a crime like this. While I specialize in personality disorders (people who can do this kind of stuff), I’ve done plenty of work in the SCZ community — there are no plans like this. Let’s not blame poor education or mental illness for these things. This is nurture,…

Nevertheless, I get a bit twitchy as a psychiatrist when people jump to violence as a result of severe mental illness. Very few people who suffer from SMI, particularly SCZ, are violent. When they are, it is often because they are feeling threatened secondary to persecutory delusions and is very rarely premeditated.

I’m going to plead Goldwater Rule here, but I can’t argue with you.

The incidence of adult schizophrenia is 1%. The incidence of pediatric schizophrenia is infinitesimally smaller than that. The likelihood that two people had SCZ at the same school, found each other, had folie à deux, and were organized enough to commit an attack is...painfully small. I should be an expert witness for…