Gnizmo said:
Mental illness is not nearly as fluid as you think. Schizophrenia in particular is not. It is known to have a strong genetic component, and essentially impossible to treat without medication. The understanding of mental illness is hardly fluid quite honestly. The understanding of what causes it is, admittedly, limited but that is more due to the lack of understanding how the brain really works. as to your second comment, absolutely not. Just because yuo do not care that a person lives or dies is not enough to get off. Most serial killers have no compassion for human ife, and I can only think of a couple that actually got away with the insanity defense (and it was clearly called for in those cases). You have to show a complete lack of regard for the fact that society also holds it to be bad. The insanity defense contends the person had no way of understanding they were doing anything wrong at all. Any attempt to hide the fact that you have killed someone will instantly exclude any possibility of this defense working. |
I see. I didn't know schizophrenia was so pinned down as I thought that it could 'onset' at any period. I'm surprised they know so much about that mental illness and mental illnesses in general. I think too often that causations are drawn, when they are probably correlations and confounding factors are ignored. I don't know though because I'm not a psych grad i student, my girlfriend is I should ask her -although she is behavioral/developmental.
I guess I'm assuming that there is greater complexity to the mind and human nature than there actually is. I guess I just assumed that psychologists go into studies from a normative standpoint. Oh well. Too bad I'm not better versed.
