The specter and challenges of mental illness...
Apr 7, 2015 8:12:00 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 8:12:00 GMT -6
I came across this story today and had to read it a couple times. At first, I admit, my callous and cynical attitude toward most news these days had me starting to say he may have done the world a favor. After reading more though? This has a real disturbing side to it, and perhaps, a statement to consider about the condition of mental health services in our nation.
Now, one part of the initial impression remains. The man needed a life. Some life. In some way. This resort and everything about it seemed to be his singular focus in life, and ultimately, in death.
This guy wasn't a lone nut that popped up from nowhere. He had YEARS of creepy, threatening history and outbursts that should have had anyone with half a brain wondering when he'd pop and kill folks. These days? Really..is it so hard to predict the outcome on a case this extreme and publicly unstable?? At least the police tried by sending him into a 72hr Psych hold....but we no longer HAVE mental health facilities to help a man like this in our nation. He'd have to go further....and he did in the end, but apparently, little short of that would be enough to get helpful attention.
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I'm glad someone realizes there is an ongoing hint of danger from this event. However, they still miss it, IMO. It isn't about more suicides....and those aren't good things. It's about murder.
This guy had made the 100% certain decision to die, do it publicly, and even burn his vehicle out in the parking garage first. What stopped him from making it a group event, and taking people with him??? Obviously, we'll never know for sure ..but I suggest the line between suicides of this nature and public shooting sprees someone has no intention of surviving is a VERY thin one.
It'd be nice if we, as a society, realized we have a growing % of mentally ill, outright unstable and very dangerous people among the population. People who I can't even blame. Not really. They're ill, in the truest sense of the word. They need help...not persecution, and before they kill themselves OR OTHERS..as is becoming entirely too common these days.
Just my thoughts on a real tragic case.
The day before he put a gun to his head and killed himself at an M Resort buffet on Easter Sunday, a Las Vegas man filled a box with his complaints against the resort and its employees and mailed it to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In his final, angry message to the world, delivered to the newspaper Monday morning, John Noble blamed his suicide on depression that set in after the Henderson resort awarded him free meals at the buffet for life then banned him from the property in 2013 for harassing some of the women working there.
In his final, angry message to the world, delivered to the newspaper Monday morning, John Noble blamed his suicide on depression that set in after the Henderson resort awarded him free meals at the buffet for life then banned him from the property in 2013 for harassing some of the women working there.
Now, one part of the initial impression remains. The man needed a life. Some life. In some way. This resort and everything about it seemed to be his singular focus in life, and ultimately, in death.
The man’s stack of papers also details a suicide threat he made on Easter Sunday 2013, three weeks after he was kicked out of the resort and about a month after his mother died. According to a Henderson police report supplied by Noble, the authorities were called by a woman who said he was stalking her and had threatened to kill himself. Police placed him in protective custody, and he eventually spent three days at the state psychiatric hospital — all of it documented in his dossier.
This guy wasn't a lone nut that popped up from nowhere. He had YEARS of creepy, threatening history and outbursts that should have had anyone with half a brain wondering when he'd pop and kill folks. These days? Really..is it so hard to predict the outcome on a case this extreme and publicly unstable?? At least the police tried by sending him into a 72hr Psych hold....but we no longer HAVE mental health facilities to help a man like this in our nation. He'd have to go further....and he did in the end, but apparently, little short of that would be enough to get helpful attention.
Mental health experts say high-profile, public suicides like this one are rare and troubling, because they often receive media coverage that can glamorize self-destructive behavior and lead to copycat deaths.
“The next vulnerable person thinks this is a good option. It’s a very real safety concern,” said Misty Vaughan Allen, State Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health.
“The next vulnerable person thinks this is a good option. It’s a very real safety concern,” said Misty Vaughan Allen, State Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health.
I'm glad someone realizes there is an ongoing hint of danger from this event. However, they still miss it, IMO. It isn't about more suicides....and those aren't good things. It's about murder.
This guy had made the 100% certain decision to die, do it publicly, and even burn his vehicle out in the parking garage first. What stopped him from making it a group event, and taking people with him??? Obviously, we'll never know for sure ..but I suggest the line between suicides of this nature and public shooting sprees someone has no intention of surviving is a VERY thin one.
It'd be nice if we, as a society, realized we have a growing % of mentally ill, outright unstable and very dangerous people among the population. People who I can't even blame. Not really. They're ill, in the truest sense of the word. They need help...not persecution, and before they kill themselves OR OTHERS..as is becoming entirely too common these days.
Just my thoughts on a real tragic case.
