Comments on: The Virginia Tech massacre http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/virginia-tech-massacre.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/virginia-tech-massacre.html#comment-74186 Anonymous Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/the-virginia-tech-massacre.html#comment-74186 24 months ago in a small Minnesota town, a mentally unstable student murdered and wounded 14 students before killing himself. www.invisiblechildren.org/weblog (april 2005 posting).<br/><br/>Jeff Weise also kept an outrageous website openly referencing homicide and suicide. Jeff was also denied treatment and prescribed Prozac*. After the carnage, Red Lake community found the money for a mental health family center to counsel troubled youth. At that time in Minnesota there were 15 child psychiatrists in the entire state (population about 4 million) and the student to counsellor ratio in MN high schools was 900 to 1.<br/><br/>As a long time child advocate (guardian ad Litem) I strongly feel the need for mental health therapy for those who need it. A county judge has shared with me the psychotropic drug medications being taken by children in her courtroom. It is truely unbelievable how many disturbed youth walk among us.<br/><br/>Had the attention to mental health services come earlier, the community could have saved itself from the immense suffering that follows these horrific events.<br/><br/>www.invisiblechildren.org 24 months ago in a small Minnesota town, a mentally unstable student murdered and wounded 14 students before killing himself. http://www.invisiblechildren.org/weblog (april 2005 posting).

Jeff Weise also kept an outrageous website openly referencing homicide and suicide. Jeff was also denied treatment and prescribed Prozac*. After the carnage, Red Lake community found the money for a mental health family center to counsel troubled youth. At that time in Minnesota there were 15 child psychiatrists in the entire state (population about 4 million) and the student to counsellor ratio in MN high schools was 900 to 1.

As a long time child advocate (guardian ad Litem) I strongly feel the need for mental health therapy for those who need it. A county judge has shared with me the psychotropic drug medications being taken by children in her courtroom. It is truely unbelievable how many disturbed youth walk among us.

Had the attention to mental health services come earlier, the community could have saved itself from the immense suffering that follows these horrific events.

http://www.invisiblechildren.org

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/virginia-tech-massacre.html#comment-74052 Anonymous Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:41:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/the-virginia-tech-massacre.html#comment-74052 I appreciate this blog post. <br/><br/>I am a university psychology instructor from California and I'm also a singer/songwriter.<br/><br/>This new tribute song is going out to friends, family, faculty and others directly impacted by the terrible massacre at Virginia Tech. <br/><br/>Virginia's Tears<br/>Dr BLT<br/>words and music by Dr Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT (c)2007<br/>http://www.drblt.net/music/VT.mp3<br/><br/>Your profound loss weighs heavy on my heart and mind, and on the hearts and minds of my students. <br/><br/>Bruce I appreciate this blog post.

I am a university psychology instructor from California and I’m also a singer/songwriter.

This new tribute song is going out to friends, family, faculty and others directly impacted by the terrible massacre at Virginia Tech.

Virginia’s Tears
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT (c)2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/VT.mp3

Your profound loss weighs heavy on my heart and mind, and on the hearts and minds of my students.

Bruce

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