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 🤷♂️
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.
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.
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.
What's going on in Palestine is a genocide. But trying to diminish what this guy experienced is pretty ghoulish. Should he just get over it and focus on more important matters? Should we all not put any time aside to feel empathy for this person because we apparently can only find that empathy for one thing at a time?