http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-...movie-theater/
Some comment posters already ask the questin which immedately popped up in my mind after hearing this. Was James Holmes on an SSRI (or in withdrawal) ?
Until now this is not confirmed but surely not impossible. And if this is true, not he but the white collar criminals behind the drug trials should be put on the electrich chair...
Recovering from the ravages of withdrawal after 5 years on Paxil/Seroxat, originally prescribed for stress and, looking backward, PTSS.
Though it is hardly possible to get something positive from the utter hell of repeated c/t's and protracted w/d, all of this unnecessary, I still believe in the possiblity to emerge from this as a healed, wiser human being.
All we need is just a little patience - Guns N' Roses
haha, Claudius, i was immediately thinking the same, what drugs was he taken, or stopped brutally...
12 years paxil(9 years only 10 mg) - cold turkey(1,5 month) and switch celexa tapered 1 year 20 mg
62 years old - for GAD - 4 years 3 months meds free [since april 2009]
vegetables soup - orange (vit C) - curcuma - some meat or fish
According to the 21 Jul Associated Press article, he had a neuroscience BS from 2010, and was in the process of withdrawing from a doctoral program in neuroscience. In May, he made a presentation on micro DNA markers in a class entitled “Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders.”
It seems likely he was experimenting with prescription medications.
Also, Colorado is just emerging from weeks of hellish, widespread, out-of-control wildfires, and it must have gotten pretty surreal-feeling in Colorado. That may have contributed to making him feel apocalyptic.
Meds free since June 2005.
"An initiation into shamanic healing means a devaluation of all values, an overturning of the profane world, a peeling away of inveterate handed-down notions of the world, liberation from everything preconceived. For that reason, shamanism is closely connected with suffering. One must suffer the disintegration of one's own system of thought in order to perceive a new world in the higher space."
-- Holger Kalweit
It is still not confirmed that he actually was or had been on an SSRI or other psych drug, but we are not the only ones who ask ourselves that question:
http://www.examiner.com/article/coul...chiatric-drugs
Recovering from the ravages of withdrawal after 5 years on Paxil/Seroxat, originally prescribed for stress and, looking backward, PTSS.
Though it is hardly possible to get something positive from the utter hell of repeated c/t's and protracted w/d, all of this unnecessary, I still believe in the possiblity to emerge from this as a healed, wiser human being.
All we need is just a little patience - Guns N' Roses
Good find, Claudius! And I love seeing the media thinking in this way!
The poor perpetrator had an NIH grant for graduate school! He had worked at Salk. He was really smart. Worked as a counselor at a kids camp. So sad.
Meds free since June 2005.
"An initiation into shamanic healing means a devaluation of all values, an overturning of the profane world, a peeling away of inveterate handed-down notions of the world, liberation from everything preconceived. For that reason, shamanism is closely connected with suffering. One must suffer the disintegration of one's own system of thought in order to perceive a new world in the higher space."
-- Holger Kalweit
pictures in media today he looks spaced out! of course we will never know the truth because no one will ask the questions.
Good point, squirrel. Usually, I’m dismayed to find that you really can’t tell a killer by looking at him. But, in this case, he looks like his eyes are spinning, with a somehow inappropriate-looking smile. Eerily prescient of his choosing the Joker as his alter ego.
Anyway, I think your observation supports the medication possibility. His look is sort of related to what we used to call the Paxil stare.
And today's paper said he looked disoriented, spacey, and sleepy in court. And someone else asked the question about meds.
Meds free since June 2005.
"An initiation into shamanic healing means a devaluation of all values, an overturning of the profane world, a peeling away of inveterate handed-down notions of the world, liberation from everything preconceived. For that reason, shamanism is closely connected with suffering. One must suffer the disintegration of one's own system of thought in order to perceive a new world in the higher space."
-- Holger Kalweit
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