I don’t support her, but one thing that gets overlooked is that psychotic symptoms can sometimes emerge or intensify suddenly. A mental health professional can assess someone for homicidal ideation (HI) at a specific point in time, but they can’t continuously monitor every thought or symptom throughout an entire psychotic episode.
For example, imagine someone suddenly develops a hallucination or delusion and genuinely believes their neighbor is a grizzly bear that poses an immediate threat. They might react violently in that moment. If that hallucination or delusion wasn’t present during an earlier assessment, how could a clinician have predicted that specific behavior beforehand? In that scenario, the intent to harm may not exist until the psychotic belief occurs.
That doesn’t mean every act of violence during a psychiatric crisis is unpredictable, but it does illustrate why predicting the exact timing and content of psychotic symptoms can be extremely difficult.
2026-07-03 21:39:14
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Monica :
I didn’t watch the whole video through yet. But I just wanna say as somebody who suffered with thought of wanting to kill themselves since I was probably 17 I’m now 40. I don’t have those thoughts in my mind at times. It’s crazy to me that people don’t ever have those thoughts or don’t struggle with those types of thoughts. And I’ve never struggled with that severe case of both part of depression. So you can never truly understand what somebody is going through or thinking or what’s happening to them. I’ve talked to many people in my lifetime in there. Lots of people who have normal thoughts people who don’t post depression like that on top of it sympathize with Lindsey.
2026-07-03 23:09:52
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