Post by Nugget on Jul 24, 2015 22:28:59 GMT -6
This statement from his mother came out in 2011 about Gary McKinnon:
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/228772/David-Gilmour-pays-for-Gary-McKinnon-s-psychiatric-treatment
He had a long history of mental illness, so there's that.....
On his 17th birthday she had deep concerns about his sudden mental deterioration and took him to a London neurologist, thinking he had a brain tumour. She has also told the Sunday Express of uncovering a history of mental illness in the family that may help in the attempt to stop extradition to the US.
Mr McKinnon’s great-grandmother, Christina Macleod, who was born in 1882, was committed to Woodilee Mental Hospital in Lenzie, near Glasgow, where she remained for 50 years until her death, aged 95. Ms Sharp said: “She became increasingly detached from the world around her and never recovered her mental health.”
The hacker’s grandmother Margaret Totten, born in 1922, also suffered from depression and was mentally ill for most of her life. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died in March 1999 in Greenfield Park Nursing Home at Carntyne, Glasgow.
In the past, many people with Asperger’s or other forms of autism were wrongly diagnosed as having schizophrenia.
Ms Sharp said: “This proves that mental illness in Gary’s family goes back generations and that Gary had pre-existing mental health difficulties.”
Mr McKinnon’s great-grandmother, Christina Macleod, who was born in 1882, was committed to Woodilee Mental Hospital in Lenzie, near Glasgow, where she remained for 50 years until her death, aged 95. Ms Sharp said: “She became increasingly detached from the world around her and never recovered her mental health.”
The hacker’s grandmother Margaret Totten, born in 1922, also suffered from depression and was mentally ill for most of her life. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died in March 1999 in Greenfield Park Nursing Home at Carntyne, Glasgow.
In the past, many people with Asperger’s or other forms of autism were wrongly diagnosed as having schizophrenia.
Ms Sharp said: “This proves that mental illness in Gary’s family goes back generations and that Gary had pre-existing mental health difficulties.”
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/228772/David-Gilmour-pays-for-Gary-McKinnon-s-psychiatric-treatment
He had a long history of mental illness, so there's that.....
I imagine he might stand to seriously increase his personl wealth by doing the UFO circuit and writing books; maybe that is his motive?
I don't know, but I kind of suspect our brains have some sort of firewall deep inside that mental illness breaches. 
