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“Was he evil? I've spent a lot of time wrestling with that question. In the end, I don't think he was. Most people believe suicide is a choice, and violence is a choice; those things are under a person's control. Yet we know from talking to survivors of suicide attempts that their decision-making ability shifts in some way we don't well understand. In our conversation, psychologist and suicide researcher Dr. Matthew Nock at Harvard used a phrase I like very much: dysfunction in decision making. If suicide seems like the only way out of an existence so painful it has become intolerable, is that really an exercise of free will? Of course, Dylan did not simply die by suicide. He committed murder; he killed people. We've all felt angry enough to fantasize about killing someone else. What allows the vast majority of us to feel appalled and frightened by the mere impulse, and another person to go through with it? If someone chooses to hurt others, what governs the ability to make that choice? If what we think of as evil is really the absence of conscience, then we have to ask, how is it a person ceases to connect with their conscience?”

EvilMental HealthColumbineSchool ShootingsBrain HealthDylan Klebold
Book:A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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“The brain whispers softly, and if we truly listen, the body begins to heal. Within us, quiet conversations stir — neurons sending gentle messages, emotions shaping every breath and movement. When thoughts find calm, peace becomes a language, and health blooms where brain and body trust. We are not apart from this story; we are both its teller and its tale, rewriting the lines with every passing day. The deepest medicine is found in the understanding of our own silent voice.” — Hemma Dsouza #mindwisebyhemma #MindBodyConnection #HealingQuotes #InnerWisdom #EmotionalHealing #SelfAwareness #Neuroscience #PeaceWithin #MentalHealth #Wellness”

Inspirational QuotesHealingMindfulnessSelf AwarenessMental HealthWellnessEmotional IntelligenceNeuroscienceMind Body ConnectionBrain Health
Book:How Your Brain Talks to your Body: The Brain's Tiny Messengers
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“Suicidal thought is a symptom of illness, of something else gone wrong. Most suicides are not impulsive, spur -of-the-moment decisions at all. Instead, most of these deaths are the result of a person losing a long and painful battle against their own impaired thinking. A suicidal person is someone who is unable to tolerate their suffering any longer. Even if she does not really want to die, she knows death will end that suffering once and for all.”

SufferingSuicideMental HealthSuicidalBrain HealthImpaired Thinking
Book:A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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“It’’s very hard to know who is going to commit an act of violence. But... prevention does not require prediction. It does require, however, that we increase overall access to brain health interventions. ... A... tiered system is already working in some schools. At the tier-one level, everyone should have access to brain health screenings and first aid, to conflict resolution programs, and to suicide prevention education. Peer intervention programs teach kids to seek help from trained adults for friends they’re worried about without fear of repercussion. A second tier of attention is trained on kids going through a hard time—a student grieving a lost parent, one who has suffered teasing or bullying, or those in known high-risk populations. For instance, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender kids are at disproportionate risk for bullying, so special efforts might be made to connect those kids to resources. The third level of intervention comes into play when a child has emerged as a particular concern. Perhaps he or she has an ongoing emotional disorder, has talked about suicide, or—as Dylan did— has turned in a paper with violent or disturbing subject matter. The student is then referred to a team of specially trained teachers and other professionals who will interview him or her, look at the student's social media and other evidence, and speak to friends, parents, local law enforcement, counselors, and teachers. The real beauty of these measures is not that they catch potential school shooters, but how effectively they help schools to identify teens struggling with all different kinds of issues: bullying, eating disorders, cutting, undiagnosed learning disorders, addiction, abuse at home, and partner violence — just to name a few. In rare cases, a team may discover that the student has made a concrete plan to hurt himself or others, at which point law enforcement may become involved. In the overwhelming majority of these cases, though, simply getting a kid help is enough.”

Mental HealthSchool ShootingsBrain HealthStudent AffairsPreventing TragedyStudent Services
Book:A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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