Comments on: Our peculiar sickness http://www.peterkrupa.com/2010/01/12/our-peculiar-sickness/ An eclectic blog for talented people Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob http://www.peterkrupa.com/2010/01/12/our-peculiar-sickness/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Bob Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:08:05 +0000 http://www.peterkrupa.com/?p=222#comment-143 I'm still not buying the spreading mental disease idea. I think its just werther effect where increased public knowledge is the issue. Take a look at this: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/bioethics/nyspi/material/MediaContagionAndSuicide.pdf Your thoughts? I’m still not buying the spreading mental disease idea. I think its just werther effect where increased public knowledge is the issue.

Take a look at this:

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/hs/medical/bioethics/nyspi/material/MediaContagionAndSuicide.pdf

Your thoughts?

]]> By: pjk http://www.peterkrupa.com/2010/01/12/our-peculiar-sickness/comment-page-1/#comment-142 pjk Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:21:18 +0000 http://www.peterkrupa.com/?p=222#comment-142 Yeah, it does. The Bremen school shooting took place in Germany in 1913. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_school_shooting While I understand there are all sorts of problems with sampling and record keeping, it just appears to have picked up after the 60s, spreading like you might expect a disease to do. Also, I think it's significant that it wasn't till the 1980s that the figure of the crazy, disgruntled, gun-totting employee entered the popular imagination. Yeah, it does. The Bremen school shooting took place in Germany in 1913.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_school_shooting

While I understand there are all sorts of problems with sampling and record keeping, it just appears to have picked up after the 60s, spreading like you might expect a disease to do. Also, I think it’s significant that it wasn’t till the 1980s that the figure of the crazy, disgruntled, gun-totting employee entered the popular imagination.

]]> By: Bob http://www.peterkrupa.com/2010/01/12/our-peculiar-sickness/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Bob Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:13:27 +0000 http://www.peterkrupa.com/?p=222#comment-141 I think it dates back before the 1960's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvestre_Matuschka I think it dates back before the 1960’s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvestre_Matuschka

]]> By: D. Greene http://www.peterkrupa.com/2010/01/12/our-peculiar-sickness/comment-page-1/#comment-140 D. Greene Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:55:40 +0000 http://www.peterkrupa.com/?p=222#comment-140 When a grown man kills a bunch of defenseless people with a gun and then kills himself before he can be stopped/caught/punished, that is cowardice and evil, not mental illness at work. To paraphrase Sheldon Koppel, labeling someone with a mental illness is at it s worst a form of social control. Today, it's used for that, and as a way to make excuses for extremely terrible behavior. Koppel was right, and America is dead. When a grown man kills a bunch of defenseless people with a gun and then kills himself before he can be stopped/caught/punished, that is cowardice and evil, not mental illness at work.

To paraphrase Sheldon Koppel, labeling someone with a mental illness is at it s worst a form of social control. Today, it’s used for that, and as a way to make excuses for extremely terrible behavior. Koppel was right, and America is dead.

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