Word: mentality
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...popular culture before anyone knew which culture had produced this particular killer. Bill O'Reilly whacked "America haters" and knee-jerk gun controllers before declaring his support for more "sensible" gun-control laws than those of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which allowed a suicidal kid with a history of mental illness to get multiple weapons without any trouble...
Police requested a temporary detention order, and Cho was evaluated at a psychiatric facility, Carilion St. Albans Behavioral Health Center in Radford, Va. Following that evaluation, a judge indicated on a court document that Cho "is mentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an eminent danger to self or others as a result of mental illness, or is so seriously mentally ill as to be substantially unable to care for self, and is incapable of volunteering or unwilling to volunteer for treatment." The amount of time Cho spent at the hospital remains a mystery...
...teachers, meanwhile, had been trying to take on his suspected mental disorder on their own. Poetry teacher Nikki Giovanni confronted the student she called "a bully." "There was something mean about this boy," she said of the young man who was in her class two years ago. "Troubled kids get drunk and jump off buildings. It was the meanness that bothered...
...psychedelics good for you? It's such a hippie relic of a question that it's almost embarrassing to ask. But a quiet psychedelic renaissance is beginning at the highest levels of American science, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Harvard, which is conducting what is thought to be its first research into therapeutic uses of psychedelics (in this case, Ecstasy) since the university fired Timothy Leary in 1963. But should we be prying open the doors of perception again? Wasn't the whole thing a disaster the first time...
...Castaldo has never come to grips with why the Columbine shootings happened. It's something only the shooters could know, he says. His own rehabilitation was focused on his body; he had no mental health counseling, although he says he suffered "a little bit" from nightmares, survivor's guilt and fear of people. "Early on," he adds, "not so much anymore...