#心理健康 #
Recently, I stumbled upon a number of themes involving teenagers deliberately killing people of the same age for trivial reasons, evoking an exploration of the mental health of teen homicide. The media has such a great deal of charisma toward killers that we shouldn't be surprised that some children think murder is a viable way to achieve their goals. (These behaviors differ from those committed in U.S. school shootings because of their much worse nature.) Here are the reasons I saw the children making murder plans for personal gain.
1。 Reward/Retaliation
In Florida in October, a 17-year-old boy and two girls aged 17 and 16 were charged with first-degree murder. They fatally attacked 18-year-old Dwight Grant. Surveillance footage showed two older children attacking him with knives and swords. Another girl lures him into a trap with sex seduction. Apparently, the girls are helping men punish Grant for his relationship with the boy's ex-girlfriend.
2. Malicious intent
In August, in Brazil, Borges wondered if she could afford to be mentally ill. She seemed to equate the disease with a killer. Her "test" was to kill. She chose her friend Ariane Laura Laureano de Oliveira because the 18-year-old girl was petite and easily subdued. Borges and two male friends planned the show: they would play a specific murder theme song. One of the men would then break his finger and attack. Borges invited Ariane to join them on an outing. She accepted the invitation. Seven days later, her body was found, strangled and stabbed. Borges apparently didn't strangle the girl who was fighting, but another member of the gang stabbed her.
Since the 1990s, we have accumulated a lot of information about the risks of developing into adult psychopaths. Concern is characterized by chronic deception, insensitivity, cruelty, manipulation, exaggeration, and impulsiveness. With more media attention paid to the mentally ill who made them look smart or even heroic, we saw more children like Borges who aspired to be one of them. In Britain in 2016, a 14-year-old girl made a list of people to kill. She lures a friend to a secluded place and stabs her. The friend fled. Knowing this girl reports an obsession with Ted Bundy. Before the attack, she had a Google search that had "How do I feel guiltless," "How far is the heart?" "And" how to kill people quickly with a knife. ”
Studies have shown that there is a strong genetic component to psychosis that calls these called callousness. "Just like some of us are more susceptible to heart disease," "these kids... More susceptible to environmental influences that trigger antisocial outcomes. ”
3. Personal dislike/disposal
In July 2012, when 16-year-old Skyler Nyssee disappeared in West Virginia, a surveillance video showed her getting into a silver sedan. Police learned that two of her closest friends, Shelia Eddie and Rachel Schuff, admitted to getting her out of the car before she disappeared. A man drove a silver car. Detectives used their findings from the surveillance footage to pressure the girls. Shu's father eventually admitted that they had taken Skyler to a remote place to kill her. Reason: They "don't like her" and "don't want to be friends anymore". ”
4. Greed/personal gain
In 2003, Pennsylvania, three boys brandished hammers, axes and stones to kill Jason Sweeney. They want the money he just got at work. Two of the boys hinted that 15-year-old Justina Morley was the mastermind. She seductively lures Sweeney to an isolated location to carry out the attack. When the boys initially abandoned the plan, she punished them as well. She also hugged three people because of Sweeney's broken body. Morley's post — a crime correspondence with her accomplices — showed shocking comments. "I was a ruthless, death-worshipping bitch," she wrote, "by feeding the weak and the lonely." I seduce them and then crush them. Her motives seem darker than the economic gains.
5. Delusional imitation
"Ed," a fictional friend said of urging 16-year-old Steven Miles to kill. Miles also embraced a fictional hero, the "Dexter" serial killer/popular cable TV series. The boy fatally stabbed his girlfriend and removed her limbs with the tools of his tree surgeon father. He wrapped her parts in plastic wrap and put them in a garbage bag. Although the court acknowledged the media's influence on the Dexter-style attacks, Miles did not get through because of his diminished ability.
However, some children plan to harm others, as they see in fiction by turning a blind eye to the boundaries between fiction and reality. If they are lonely, isolated, and angry, they may hone the satisfaction that some violent characters derive from exercising power. Or maybe they're just playing a role in a fictional scene. We saw this in 2015, when 12-year-old Morgan Geiser and Anissa Weir stabbed their friend Peyton Letner 19 times to appease the hypothetical slim man. A few months later Geyser was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I've found multiple examples of each of these five motivations. The immature adolescent brain certainly plays a role in both predatory and impulsive aggression, but it is also clear that some children absorb the influence of culture in its entirety, which makes the moral seriousness of murder flat. The desire for power and acquisition can easily transcend the perception of right and wrong.
Teenagers do not yet have their own concepts of things and are vulnerable to the impact of the things involved. Especially teenagers worship heroes and are passionate and impulsive. So in recent years, the violence caused by animation and games has been on the rise.
Of course, this has to do with the lack of guidance and related education of adolescents. This is just an illustration of the impact of culture. There are two sides to the theory of things, and the guidance of adolescents should be guided to the positive side. As the old saying goes, take its essence and remove its dross.