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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I think it was a fairly typical scenario before the attack. I'm sure he posted weird stuff on FB, acted strangely around his friends and at work. There were reports of his parents receiving weird texts and trying very hard to track him down.
But this is common when it comes to almost all health care. People have heart attacks right in front of us and we give them some soup and tell them to have a nap. We do not know enough to take a the leap from our friend is feeling kind of down, to our friend is really very dangerously ill with something that could end up in multiple tragic deaths.
If someone's femur is sticking out of their leg we all know to take them to the hospital. But there are thousands of more serious conditions we haven't the foggiest notion of. When we talk of mental healthcare it involves everyone, not just those with an illness.
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All very true.
I do remember reading that the strange texts only happened shortly before he went to the house party, the parents were trying to track him down but it was already too late. Those texts must have been alarming enough that they knew something was very wrong right then. I don't know if we ever learned anything about the days and weeks preceding that day though. As a parent it's terrifying to me that I could miss something this serious happening to my child.