Whitman met with Maurice Dean Heatly, the staff psychiatrist at the
UT Health Center, on March 29, 1966. He referred to his visit with
Heatly in his final suicide note, writing: "I talked with a Doctor
once for about two hours and tried to convey to him my fears that I
felt come [sic] overwhelming violent impulses. After one visit, I
never saw the Doctor again, and since then have been fighting my
mental turmoil alone, and seemingly to no avail."
Heatly's notes on the visit said, "This massive, muscular youth
seemed to be oozing with hostility [...] that something seemed to be happening to him and that he didn't seem to be himself." "He readily
admits having overwhelming periods of hostility with a very minimum
of provocation. Repeated inquiries attempting to analyze his exact experiences were not too successful with the exception of his vivid
reference to 'thinking about going up on the tower with a deer rifle
and start shooting people.'"
On August 2, an autopsy was conducted by Coleman de Chenar (a neuropathologist at Austin State Hospital) at the funeral home. Urine
and blood were removed to test for traces of amphetamines or other substances. During the autopsy, Chenar discovered a "pecan-sized"
brain tumor, which he labeled an astrocytoma and which exhibited a
small amount of necrosis. These findings were later revised by the
Connally Commission: "It is the opinion of the task force that the relationship between the brain tumor and Charles J. Whitman's actions
on the last day of his life cannot be established with clarity."
Forensic investigators have theorized that the tumor pressed against Whitman's amygdala, a part of the brain related to anxiety and fight-or-flight responses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
"(David P.)" wrote:-------------------
Whitman met with Maurice Dean Heatly, the staff psychiatrist at the
UT Health Center, on March 29, 1966. He referred to his visit with
Heatly in his final suicide note, writing: "I talked with a Doctor
once for about two hours and tried to convey to him my fears that I
felt come [sic] overwhelming violent impulses. After one visit, I
never saw the Doctor again, and since then have been fighting my
mental turmoil alone, and seemingly to no avail."
Heatly's notes on the visit said, "This massive, muscular youth
seemed to be oozing with hostility [...] that something seemed to be happening to him and that he didn't seem to be himself." "He readily
admits having overwhelming periods of hostility with a very minimum
of provocation. Repeated inquiries attempting to analyze his exact experiences were not too successful with the exception of his vivid reference to 'thinking about going up on the tower with a deer rifle
and start shooting people.'"
On August 2, an autopsy was conducted by Coleman de Chenar (a neuropathologist at Austin State Hospital) at the funeral home. Urine
and blood were removed to test for traces of amphetamines or other substances. During the autopsy, Chenar discovered a "pecan-sized"
brain tumor, which he labeled an astrocytoma and which exhibited a
small amount of necrosis. These findings were later revised by the
Connally Commission: "It is the opinion of the task force that the relationship between the brain tumor and Charles J. Whitman's actions
on the last day of his life cannot be established with clarity."
Forensic investigators have theorized that the tumor pressed against Whitman's amygdala, a part of the brain related to anxiety and fight-or-flight responses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_WhitmanI believe until recently all of the mass shootings were done by people
with a mental illness they were born with, or acquired by a brain
injury.
Today stupidity is the cause of some of these shootings. These people
that do drive by shootings that kill or injure many people are not intelligent enough to foresee the consequences of their actions. Like targeting one person in a crowd.
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