They are usually 'diagnosed' by "experts" on the internet after they are already dead, not by doctors.
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you do understand that a diagnosis constitutes a certain number of identifiable behaviors being displayed. Untreated or not still ill
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Yes. And generally, experts in the diagnosis of mental illness agree that mass shooters are not mentally ill.
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Whilst interesting, that is basically an opinion piece rather than factual analysis.
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It also doesn't argue that mass shooters are all mentally ill, rather that many of them were reported to display...
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...signs of mental illness after the fact by media. In my opinion that's not enough to conclude anything.
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Do you think post-hoc analysis of a person's actions by the media is proof of anything?
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personally having studied psych it is an overly broad narcissistic field with little to no value due to their injection of bias
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...in that case why bother talking about mental illness at all?
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