MsAnais
Verified Clinical Psychologist (AU)
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......At 21, he called his parents ranting about his loneliness and virginity. They insisted he see a psychiatrist. The next month, he bought his first gun.
.......... was 20, after two women at a bus stop didnt smile back at him when he drove by, he turned his car around and splashed them with his Starbucks latte, taking pleasure in it staining their jeans, driving away quickly before they could get his license plate. And months later, when he spotted a happy group of popular college kids typical fraternity jocks, tall and muscular and beautiful blonde girls playing kickball in a park, he went to a K-mart and bought a Supersoaker, which he filled with orange juice and sprayed them, driving away when they chased him, an ominous foreshadowing of the devastation he would wreak later with a real gun.
.........writes that he discovered PUAHate.com he anti-pick-up-artist site in the Spring of 2013 and that many people there shared [his] hatred of women [but] would be too cowardly to act on it and that the site confirmed his theories about how wicked and degenerate women really are.
........... was seeing a psychiatrist as well as a series of counselors, who were supposed to essentially act as friends and help him socialize, but Rodgers deranged jealousy was such that it only made him more distraught when women were attracted to his counselor and though he bonded with a female counselor, she moved away, and he didnt want another because it felt like prostitution to hire a woman to spend time with him. The psychiatrist prescribed Risperidone, (the stuff is really rough on folks - puts them in a coma, they usually refuse to take it because of the horrible side effects they experiance-the drug has a very high non compliance rate) but Rodger refused to take it after Googling it.
......at 21 in the fall of 2013, he got drunk and went to a party, but he wound up getting violent and trying to push people off a ledge. He wound up getting pushed instead, and beaten, and broke his leg.
..........plans to lure people to his house and torture them in the style of Theon Greyjoy,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmir...print-of-santa-barbara-shooter-elliot-rodger/
bbm. Thanks for that info - I haven't read much of his manifesto yet, so didn't know that. To be prescribed Risperidone means he was identified as seriously mentally ill by the psychiatrist. Risperidone is a seriously strong med for psychosis, amongst other things. It is not lightly prescribed!
I agree with what other posters have said earlier - surely the treating mental health professionals bear some responsibility here?? I'm in Australia, so the law may well be very different to the US, but here a person can be 'sectioned' (involuntarily placed into a mental hospital) if they are a danger to themselves or others. He clearly fit that criteria, judging by his writings........
Very alarming that he slipped through the net when I see him as someone who was leaving very visible signs along the way about how mentally unwell he was. He needed serious intervention. And it didn't happen. JMO