An essay which notes the inter-related nature of the killing of a well-know psychotherapist and a mass shooting by a mental patient, both on the same day.
Kathryn Faughey and the Northern Illinois University killing Rampage, an Ordinary Day
EXCERPT: NIU is only about an hour and a half away from my house. A short trip, really. Dekalb. Think women's basketball. Huskies. Nice people, now scared to go to school.
It's Valentine's Day. A quick and dirty: Another peer rejected kid. With mental illness.
A dangerous world we live in, perverse. We're going to need more mental health professionals, my friends, not fewer, in the coming years. So don't listen to people tell you that there's a glut of psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and counselors, or that psychiatrists don't get to do psychotherapy anymore, all they do is push medicine.
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I'm so flattered. Thanks for the excerpt. I love Robert Frost, btw.
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