Why did they let OP leave prison if he was on suicide watch?
My first comment on this report is that the media have reported almost since Day One that OP was on suicide watch.
"The athlete is said to be on suicide watch due to fears the blade runner might take his own life over charges for the ‘pre-planned’ murder of his model girlfriend, it emerged last night."
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ged-murder-Reeva-Steenkamp.html#ixzz2N7LG1zRJ
and that they are monitoring his mental health.
So would not that have been a good reason not to let him out on bail in the first place?
What a responsibility for Uncle Arnold and his wife to have in their home. Maybe they have become fed up with having him there since so he wants to return home.
Maybe OP's mental health had not been assessed then so if this latest report is true and he is suicidal, then he should be locked up NOW. He is a danger to himself and a danger to society especially if Uncle Arnold gives him access to any of his many guns.
I just hope that this latest bail relaxation hearing leads to their putting him back in prison or in a secure psychiatric hospital.
Otherwise, is OP going to fake being suicidal because lawyers will then have a reason to delay the trial or get him off on a lighter sentence. So has he asked his friend to go to the media and start the rumour?
IMO OP has NPD. That narcissists are prone to suicide is a myth according to Dr Sam Vaknin, a self-confessed narcissist himself, who is a polific writer on narcissism. He states:
"Regarding the myth (that narcissists are prone to suicide, especially in the wake of a life crisis involving a grave narcissistic injury):
Narcissists very rarely commit suicide. They react with suicidal ideation and reactive psychoses to severe stress – but to commit suicide runs against the grain of narcissism. This is more of a Borderline (BPD) behavior. The differential diagnosis of NPD from BPD rests on the absence of attempted suicide and self-mutilation in NPD.
In response to a life crisis (divorce, public disgrace, imprisonment, accident, bankruptcy, terminal or disfiguring illness) the narcissist is likely to adopt either of two reactions:
1. The narcissist finally refers himself to therapy, realising that something is dangerously wrong with him. Statistics show that talk therapies are rather ineffective with narcissism. Soon enough, the therapist is bored, fed up or actively repelled by the grandiose fantasies and open contempt of the narcissist. The therapeutic alliance crumbles and the narcissist emerges "triumphant" having sucked the therapist's energy dry.
2. The narcissist frantically gropes for alternative Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Narcissists are very creative. If all else fails, they exhibitionistically make use of their own misery. Or they lie, create a fantasy, confabulate, harp on other people's emotions,
fake a medical condition, pull a stunt, fall in ideal love, make a provocative move or commit a crime…
The narcissist is bound to come up with a surprising angle to extract his narcissistic supply from a begrudging and mean world.
Experience shows that most narcissists go through (1) and then through (2).
The exposure of the False Self for what it is – false – is a major narcissistic injury. The narcissist is likely to react with severe self-deprecation and self-flagellation even to the point of suicidal ideation. This – on the inside.
On the outside, he is likely to appear assertive and confident. This is his way of channelling his life-threatening aggression.
Rather than endure its assault and its frightening outcomes – he redirects his aggression, transforms it and hurls it at others.
What form this conversion assumes is nigh impossible to predict without knowing the narcissist in question intimately. It could be anything from cynical humour, through brutal honesty, verbal abuse, passive aggressive behaviours (frustrating others) and down to actual physical violence."
http://samvak.tripod.com/narcissismmyths.html
