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Psychotic? Schizophrenic? Both?
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<blockquote data-quote="barneysmom" data-source="post: 400516" data-attributes="member: 1872"><p>I feel as though I am punched in the gut every time Loughner is referred to as maniac, nutcase, psycho, wacko. It scares me -- the casual way that he is labeled and dismissed and mocked. It's wrong. It seems that the media is putting that creepy mug shot out there like a trophy for us to gape at.</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106921.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106921.html</a></p><p></p><p>What witz said -- "No one was there to lighten the load." That's the sad truth and breaks my heart for that kid.</p><p></p><p>Our son had a psychotic break, so some of this feels so familiar to me and it scares me and makes me so angry too. I read that some families of people with sz (if that's what Loughner suffers from, we don't know for sure) are "coming out" and telling their stories, among them Bill Kurtiss from American Justice, whose son had sz.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110115021109/http://feder.blogs.chicago.timeout.com/2011/01/11/kurtis-speaks-%E2%80%98from-the-heart%E2%80%99-after-tragic-news-strikes-personal-chord/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110115021109/http://feder.blogs.chicago.timeout.com/2011/01/11/kurtis-speaks-‘from-the-heart’-after-tragic-news-strikes-personal-chord/</a></p><p></p><p>Venting. Grieving for those who were killed, and those injured, and the survivors. I read that Congresswoman Giffords is breathing on her own now, off the ventilator.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barneysmom, post: 400516, member: 1872"] I feel as though I am punched in the gut every time Loughner is referred to as maniac, nutcase, psycho, wacko. It scares me -- the casual way that he is labeled and dismissed and mocked. It's wrong. It seems that the media is putting that creepy mug shot out there like a trophy for us to gape at. [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106921.html[/url] What witz said -- "No one was there to lighten the load." That's the sad truth and breaks my heart for that kid. Our son had a psychotic break, so some of this feels so familiar to me and it scares me and makes me so angry too. I read that some families of people with sz (if that's what Loughner suffers from, we don't know for sure) are "coming out" and telling their stories, among them Bill Kurtiss from American Justice, whose son had sz. [url]https://web.archive.org/web/20110115021109/http://feder.blogs.chicago.timeout.com/2011/01/11/kurtis-speaks-%E2%80%98from-the-heart%E2%80%99-after-tragic-news-strikes-personal-chord/[/url] Venting. Grieving for those who were killed, and those injured, and the survivors. I read that Congresswoman Giffords is breathing on her own now, off the ventilator. [/QUOTE]
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