I think my comment may have been misconstrued, but I didn't word it delicately enough. I apologize. I actually meant that if must be difficult when situations like this come up because of the stigma that gets attached to schizophrenia. I wasn't apologizing for her having the it or somehow implying it's hard on you because she has to deal with it. Just merely saying it must be difficult since you literally stated you worry about the impact these articles will have. Media affects the people we love, and I was trying to offer sympathy, not rub your nose in it. That would be decidedly cruel and I'm even more sorry that you thought some random stranger on the internet would do that. I should have been more careful. Again, I'm sorry.

I also wasn't scapegoating, merely pointing at that it is a risk factor (see above). Some ideas just speak to people. People can spontaneously love and mourn and regret, why not hate? We describe and diagnose a variety of other mood states with antecedent behaviors as mental health disorders, again, why not hate?

An extreme example: some people hate pickles. They didn't have to see someone else hate pickles to know they hate them or have to learn to hate pickles. Xenophobia is irrational. We know discrimination is hard wired in the brain. We cannot predict why or when people will discriminate.

These issues are complex, and they are neither solely biological nor sociological. Again, we don't know his situation. I'm not sympathizing with him in any way, because fuck that guy, but I hope his lawyers aren't trying to weasel him out of something by arguing for something that is a legitimate problem for some people. In that regard, I think we are on the same page.

I also didn't say people with mental health issues are violent. I said people who are violent are often dealing with mental health issues. One implies all mentally unwell people are violent, which isn't true. I think someone who kills another person is mentally unwell, regardless of whether they have been diagnosed with a specific condition. That's my belief and I am entitled to it. The DSM5 and ICS10 are not infallible at capturing the human experience, nor are they even considered exhaustively categorical. They don't even account for all cultural experiences.

I also stated people with conduct disorder are violent. It's literally in the diagnosis. Psychosis (not schizphrenia) shares some of the features, but psychosis is a spectrum and not everyone is prone to the same risk factors or engage in conduct disordered behaviors. I work in severe mental illness, and I've seen the spectrum daily. Some people with psychosis are never aggressive in even the slightest way. Some are violent every single day toward everyone they encounter, without rhyme or reason. Some are very targeted in the actions. Is entirely based on the individual. Again, psychosis may have made him vulnerable, and I think that cannot be disregarded. We have to be better about recognizing risk factors. No one deserves to receive hate, nor does anyone deserve to fall into the pit of hatred either.