Is Cho Seung-Hui the only one to blame?
Alan E. Moses
April 18, 2007
As America reels from the tragedy on the Virginia Tech campus. The questions abound as to how this could have happened? Is it a gun control issue? Is it another lone nut that lost his sense of reality as some suggest? Or are we ignoring something that seems to be a connection to situations like this?
We all remember the Columbine massacre in Colorado. This was two young men that went on a killing spree without any sense of reason. The killing appeared to be done randomly just as Virginia Tech. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a rampage that left us stunned as there never was a clear cut cause. The media first played it as they were outsiders and didn’t feel that they belonged. Further investigation has shown us that this was not true.
Eric Harris suffered from depression and obsessive ways (OCD) while Klebold was your classic follower and sought a leader to give him self identity. An Autopsy found that Harris was taking his prescribed medication as directed. Fluvoxamine was found at therapeutic levels in his blood stream. This drugs intent was to regulate the serotonin levels within his brain and to relieve his symptoms. It was his brains dysfunction that caused his serotonin levels need to be regulated. This neurotransmitter has been identified as a contribution to depression, irritability, personality changes and many other neurological disorders.
The cause or causes as to why this happens can be associated with neurotoxins. A neurotoxin can be a chemical or heavy metal that causes negative chemical reactions within man. These toxins can be found everywhere from food to the air that we breath and all things in between. Determining what caused the damage or when done is almost impossible. Our scientific and medical community only seems to attempt to find symptom relievers. This might be due to the fact that the true causes are so many and profit is the American way.
The sketchy details about Cho Seung-Hui have revealed a troubled past. His depression and inability or unwillingness to speak to others is well noted. Recent reports show that this has not changed since his high school days. The only clue that he had violent thoughts was within his writings that spoke of sexual abuse and hatred towards male figures. This was someone who majored in English in college and was in his senior year however the two plays that are reported to be his are written at the 4th or 5th grade level.
This was a young man that was living within his own world. He did not acknowledge others as he acted as though he heard nothing. The world only was as big as he allowed and only included what he wished. The signs of a major problem were there yet those that attempted to intervene where told that nothing could be done. And so we see where this has gone. This young man was ill and it was up to this ill person to seek help.
The news media has called Cho a loser, crazy and hater. Something that shows just how we as a nation treat those that suffer from diseases and disorders that we don’t understand. We have the unfortunate history of doing this with those of different races, religions and political views. And this only harms these people further.
Once we saw that his family was not what you consider poor the “Rich Kids” statement didn’t seem to fit what he claimed as a reason to kill others and himself. This was a sign of confusion as reality was leaving Cho’s ability to process the truth. His family runs a dry cleaning business and this might be a place to start. What chemicals are used in the dry cleaning process? Could this be another mass murder with serotonin malfunction? Are we poisoning ourselves and just too stubborn to lay blame where it belongs?
Perchloroethylane (PERC) is used in the dry cleaning process. This chemical can be absorbed or inhaled. It is a well documented cause of serotonin dysfunction as depression, anxiety, nervousness, irritability and personality changes can be the result. This describes Cho and should draw some attention. Was Cho just some crazy person or was he overexposed to toxins that can cause his symptoms? How many other neurotoxins had he been exposed to? It all depends on how much and when these toxins were introduced as to the level of damage done to his brains ability to function correctly. Symptoms range from very mild to what we have just witnessed. A mind that is lost without the ability to seek help.
How many more of these events can we just sit and watch and not demand that reasons need to be given? Are we depending on pills that may or may not help? Can we depend on people that have lost reason to take the pill? Or should we look at the similarities in brain dysfunction that contribute to these cases? How many more Autistic children or ADD/ADHD, ODD, OCD, MCS, depressive and all those disorders that we have no answers for can we keep explaining away?
We all remember the Columbine massacre in Colorado. This was two young men that went on a killing spree without any sense of reason. The killing appeared to be done randomly just as Virginia Tech. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a rampage that left us stunned as there never was a clear cut cause. The media first played it as they were outsiders and didn’t feel that they belonged. Further investigation has shown us that this was not true.
Eric Harris suffered from depression and obsessive ways (OCD) while Klebold was your classic follower and sought a leader to give him self identity. An Autopsy found that Harris was taking his prescribed medication as directed. Fluvoxamine was found at therapeutic levels in his blood stream. This drugs intent was to regulate the serotonin levels within his brain and to relieve his symptoms. It was his brains dysfunction that caused his serotonin levels need to be regulated. This neurotransmitter has been identified as a contribution to depression, irritability, personality changes and many other neurological disorders.
The cause or causes as to why this happens can be associated with neurotoxins. A neurotoxin can be a chemical or heavy metal that causes negative chemical reactions within man. These toxins can be found everywhere from food to the air that we breath and all things in between. Determining what caused the damage or when done is almost impossible. Our scientific and medical community only seems to attempt to find symptom relievers. This might be due to the fact that the true causes are so many and profit is the American way.
The sketchy details about Cho Seung-Hui have revealed a troubled past. His depression and inability or unwillingness to speak to others is well noted. Recent reports show that this has not changed since his high school days. The only clue that he had violent thoughts was within his writings that spoke of sexual abuse and hatred towards male figures. This was someone who majored in English in college and was in his senior year however the two plays that are reported to be his are written at the 4th or 5th grade level.
This was a young man that was living within his own world. He did not acknowledge others as he acted as though he heard nothing. The world only was as big as he allowed and only included what he wished. The signs of a major problem were there yet those that attempted to intervene where told that nothing could be done. And so we see where this has gone. This young man was ill and it was up to this ill person to seek help.
The news media has called Cho a loser, crazy and hater. Something that shows just how we as a nation treat those that suffer from diseases and disorders that we don’t understand. We have the unfortunate history of doing this with those of different races, religions and political views. And this only harms these people further.
Once we saw that his family was not what you consider poor the “Rich Kids” statement didn’t seem to fit what he claimed as a reason to kill others and himself. This was a sign of confusion as reality was leaving Cho’s ability to process the truth. His family runs a dry cleaning business and this might be a place to start. What chemicals are used in the dry cleaning process? Could this be another mass murder with serotonin malfunction? Are we poisoning ourselves and just too stubborn to lay blame where it belongs?
Perchloroethylane (PERC) is used in the dry cleaning process. This chemical can be absorbed or inhaled. It is a well documented cause of serotonin dysfunction as depression, anxiety, nervousness, irritability and personality changes can be the result. This describes Cho and should draw some attention. Was Cho just some crazy person or was he overexposed to toxins that can cause his symptoms? How many other neurotoxins had he been exposed to? It all depends on how much and when these toxins were introduced as to the level of damage done to his brains ability to function correctly. Symptoms range from very mild to what we have just witnessed. A mind that is lost without the ability to seek help.
How many more of these events can we just sit and watch and not demand that reasons need to be given? Are we depending on pills that may or may not help? Can we depend on people that have lost reason to take the pill? Or should we look at the similarities in brain dysfunction that contribute to these cases? How many more Autistic children or ADD/ADHD, ODD, OCD, MCS, depressive and all those disorders that we have no answers for can we keep explaining away?
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