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I trust that you want to keep up with the latest from the therapy world, so, here goes.
You will feel comforted to learn that subway shooter Frank James had been in therapy. And he did not think that therapy had helped him. Hard to imagine such an outcome, but….
The Daily Mail has the story:
James also references psychiatric facilities he has attended in the Bronx and in New Jersey, saying the staff failed to help him and 'made me more dangerous'.
'Mr Mayor, I'm a victim of your mental health program,' James said in one lengthy video.
'I'm 63 now full of hate, full of anger, and full of bitterness.'
On March 1, he raged against the staff of Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services - a psychiatric care facility in New Jersey.
James showed the faces of the staff and managers on the screen behind him, saying: 'these are the people that was supposed to be helping me. They made me worse.'
He added: 'They f****** made me worse.
Readers of this blog will not be surprised.
Aside from that, our new Mayor Eric Adams, who seems clearly to be doing the right things and even saying the right things-- to not real avail, for now-- pointed out that Frank James had been spewing hatred on social media sites for some time now. Can you imagine that these great enemies of hate speech failed to notice that James had been fomenting hatred and violence on their sites.
Apparently, the platforms are so intent on policing conservative opinion, that they missed this flagrant hate speech. After all, they routinely deplatform people like the former president, the Babylon Bee, Alex Berenson, Charlie Kirk, etc, that they simply ignore the unhinged rantings of a homicidal maniac.
Anyway, Mayor Adams raised the issue on CNN:
'We are watching signs around us of those who are leaning toward violent actions and ignoring them,' Adams told CNN on Wednesday morning.
'I cannot play a song on a social media channel that belongs to someone else without them identifying that. Why aren't we identifying these dangerous threats.
'Why aren't we being more proactive instead of waiting for this to happen?
'There is some responsibility, I think, on social media industries and companies.
'[We] must lean into why we're watching these postings and these threats every day, and no one is giving an early warning sign to law enforcement.'
YouTube has not responded to DailyMail.com's request for comment.
So, we can hope that perhaps one day the mayor’s actions will tamp down crime in the Big Apple. As of now, it is not happening.
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How soon will New Yorkers realize they're living in a hell hole?
According to Jewish New Yorker the "mumbler" was in the process of cracking open a canister of gas in preparation to gas the Jews, this is about when the New Yorker began jumping over and dodging his bullets like a Marvel superhero.
"James also references psychiatric facilities he has attended in the Bronx and in New Jersey, saying the staff failed to help him and 'made me more dangerous'."
I wonder if the real problem was that they couldn't help him because he didn't want to change. Maybe he rejected any therapy that involved abandoning his paranoiac hatred and resentment. And maybe he had been crazy for so long that change was more or less impossible?
But then we are shifting the blame-- and we do not want to do that. Why not take him at his word? Besides, he can take medication without wanting to change. I find this wanting to change category to be designed to absolve therapists of all responsibility for their actions.
I confess that I have no idea what was really going on with his therapy so I don't know what to think. But then, all that has appeared in the mainstream news are a few general quotes of his complaints. Nor has anything been reported about that clinic he attended. Maybe more will come out later. General news reporting has that 72 Hour Rule. Maybe for more complex questions like this we need a 72 Day Rule.
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