re: Las Vegas shooter's father, 'Bingo Bruce,' lived colorful life of crime and deception

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I'm a psychologist who works at a state psychiatric hospital.

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Thank you for doing the Lord's work. Seriously.

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This guy wasn't in prison, you know.

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Yes, but his father was, and that is who this thread is about. I was responding to the post that suggested that the shooter has a genetic predisposition to mental illness based on the father's history.

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The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Paddock was convicted and slapped with a 20-year prison sentence, but the lengthy jail term was cut short when he busted out of a federal prison in Texas in 1969, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.

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Yes, but his father was, and that is who this thread is about. I was responding to the post that suggested that the shooter has a genetic predisposition to mental illness based on the father's history.

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Well, that clarifies it. I thought you were referring to the shooter.

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I'm not a psychiatrist, but thanks for displaying your ignorance.

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Well, dick, that was a fricking typo.

UT Tower shooter Charles Whitman had a brain tumor, you never know, a psycho that stopped taking his meds....anything

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Well, that clarifies it. I thought you were referring to the shooter.

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We don't know enough about the shooter yet, but I doubt a clear history of mental illness is discovered.

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We don't know enough about the shooter yet, but I doubt a clear history of mental illness is discovered.

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Yeah, probably not. I don't know that such necessarily means, or even leads to the reasonable conclusion, that he wasn't mentally ill, though.

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Is there a DSM code for “psychopath with suicidal ideation”? Surely, there is.

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No. The closest thing would be Antisocial Personality Disorder. Although there is a code for that, it is not considered a mental illness by itself. Sometimes, it is a secondary diagnosis.

Suicidal ideation is not a mental illness either. Lots of people think of suicide at some point in their lives but don't act on it. Actual self mutilation or suicide attempts are entirely different and are highly correlated with Borderline Personality Disorder and Mood or Psychotic Disorders. Had this been the case with Bruce, a formal diagnosis would have been made (i.e. Major Depressive Disorder, Severe, Recurrent, Schizoaffective Disorder, Depressive Type, etc.).

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Well, dick, that was a fricking typo

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Very sorry, but I'm sure you can see the huge difference between what was conveyed in this context.

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Psychopath with suicidal tendencies does not equal mental illness.

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