If a single unkind exchange of words can rankle in a person's spirit for months or even years, how much more damaging can years of warfare and conflict be, brought into the family living-room and made personal, via television, movies and internet? How about repeated incidents of hazing and rejection in early life? School is just as often the setting for torment as severe as many profoundly dysfunctional homes.
Noted psychologist and author Peter Breggin said, while being interviewed on Coast to Coast AM, that in his years of studying the backgrounds and motivations of mass murderers, there has always been one or both of the following factors in effect: either there has been a history of severe abuse, or the perpetrator was receiving psychiatric drugs.
Some of the side effects of these medications can be greatly exaggerated by metabolic abnormalities, and sometimes the issue that kicks things off is a change in dosage, or a change in other medications. Body chemistry is seriously impacted by drugs and their interactions with each other, by hormonal or metabolic changes, and by changes in the person's living environment. A slice of grapefruit can cause a medication to become dramatically exaggerated in its effect upon the user, or completely negate the effect. Chemical alterations in a person's system can even cause formerly unexpressed genetic abnormalities to suddenly become full blown, or suppress others.