Originally Posted by JonLaw
Uh, she provided him training in the use of small arms.

Indeed. She did this because she's a prepper, and the line between "prepper" and "paranoid delusional" is fuzzy at best.

So in this case, another hypothesis could be that access to mental health services was not available to this kid, but not because of money... but because his illness was shared by his mom to some degree, who may not have seen it as an illness at all.

And then there's the other, more common reason why people don't seek mental health services: social stigma.

Our society has been engineered so that if someone doesn't voluntarily seek help, and have the means to pay, the alternative access point is prison.