So he goes bonkers, basically tortures the girl, then has a mental breakdown and a seizure? He's not going to be on the Cs any longer but there's definitely something else going on there, wether it's mental or pharmaceutical or whatever. Either this guy has seriously bad mental issues or he did some super hard stuff that did no go well. Not condoning his actions in any way. Just saying something has to go wrong for that entire episode to happen.
This is extremely, extremely speculative and should be taken with huge amounts of salt but the kinds of reactions - the violence and suicidality but especially the powerful anxiety and frequent seizures followed by passing out - that are being described sound like some of the extreme cases of people overdosing on synthetic marijuana (spice, K2, etc). Especially if there's a pre-existing mental issue there.
Again there's zero evidence that this is the case, it just comes to mind as consistent with what's being reported.
My impression too. Sounds like a psychotic episode that was either initiated or exacerbated by drug use -- spice, cocaine, k2, etc. May have also been a prescription overdose, like a benzodiazepine. Sad story if true, but your gut instinct is familiar for inpatient psych admissions. I feel terrible for her, but if we are right (and I suspect you're always right), for him as well .
Assault and battery, kidnapping, and strangulation are not typical of a psychotic episode.
Extreme forms of violence in the context of psychosis are much more common than you would think. Part time, I've recently starting conducting the psychodiagnostic and suicide risk assessments for newly admitted patients to a state psychiatric hospital, and you'd be surprised by what patients present with. I agree with you that there's a lot of variability - some patients are actively psychotic for months and pleasant to work with, while others experience command hallucinations that drive them to inflict serious injury to themselves or others in unfathomable ways. Keep in mind that many psychotic patients are experiencing the world outside of their own body, to the extent that self-harm behaviors intended just to "feel something" result in an unintentional suicide.
Earlier in the thread, I did float that it sounded like a first time psychotic episode. I believe it does even more now, but we won't ever have enough information to move beyond loose speculation. That said, people don't commit acts like this without a mental health issue.
The bolded just isn't true. Most domestic violence are crimes of passion or the result of a chronic violent abuser without mental illness issues. In many cases it's just learned behavior from growing up in such an environment. Also, people in crime gangs do much worse things than this without mental issues. Fact is, some people are just evil and that has nothing to do with mental health.
But those guys don't have a seizure attack when they do evil things, you need an unhealthy brain to make that happen
they keep skipping that fact for some convenient reason
Nobody "keeps skipping" that. It's because it's not really true. For instance, as linked above, rage can lead to seizures. Is it a criminal defense to a severe assault that "I got really, really angry"?
Just checked your link, it tells the exact opposite conclusion
"In the past, rage attacks were thought to be related to epilepsy or Tourette syndrome.
This is now understood to be false"
"In very rare cases,
limbic seizures can be linked to out-of-control behavior. However, this is uncommon"
So..
1.rage attack only very rarely cause limbic seizures, no lose of conscious
2.If bird did pass out after seizure, it most likely is a Generalized seizure of Epilepsy which definitely related to an unhealthy brain
I'm no expert in neuro-psyso area but it seems pretty clear to me, correct me if i'm wrong
