If there's one thing I'm certain of it's that "access to mental health treatment" was not an issue with this particular family.
Monetarily maybe. But the mental health system is difficult to navigate ...one needs to be extraordinarily determined to find what one might need. Additionally having a mentally ill 20 year old child can be like watching a head-on collision with no ability to stop it. Not that this was the case here, we don't know, but many parents i see want help for their young adult child but have no legal grounds to force treatment until things are very severe.
There is no simple answer IMO. We grasp at causes as a way to feel in control of something so horrific. My heart breaks for those families. We lost a son 3 years ago this January...and it is unimaginable the pain. I cannot even think to have lost a child through such violence.
