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I can understand this and it makes sense. No one wants to think their child would do such a thing. But I am certainly glad this grandma did turn her grandson in.I think the problem with behaving erratically is that it is like the frog in the boiling pot of water. Most of the time, it isn’t sudden. The slow ramp up started ten years prior when the person was a child. If the person went this long without any psychiatric help, it is safe to say the family has a pretty good denial mechanism at work. So when they see erratic behavior, their denial kicks in somehow to makes it so they don’t believe what they see because they want so desperately to believe their child, husband, friend, is normal.
It would take an outsider to see the behavior.
This is in the case of mental illness, which I think they said were 1 in 4 shootings.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/us/mass-shooting-averted/index.html