What if

What if his parents had been told he was having homicidal thoughts when the psychiatrist called to alert he had quit school?

https://www.colorado.edu/initiative/newscorps/2015/07/29/charmed-life-mom-testifies

“My son had a diagnosis of schizophrenia which I didn’t know about until I sat in the trial,” Arlene said.

“This is a neurological condition that renders the person unable to know they have a mental health disorder, so if you’re not aware you have a problem, you’re not going to seek treatment for it,” Dr. Fix said.

82-

Lives

12 died

70 injured

The shooter is still alive in prison.

So many experts and yet the biggest elephant in the room..

What if??

What if his parents had been told he was having homicidal thoughts?

What if his parents were advised about potential psychiatric harm? What if they knew “cautiously” was going from 50 mg to 150 mg in two months? What if they knew prescription drugs had been combined?

What if they knew a cocktail had been prescribed?

What if the psychiatrist acknowledged and had researched  to find that combining Klonopin and Zoloft had “side effects” of confusion, impaired judgement, impaired thinking, altered reality?

What if he was suffering from a nutrient deficiency?

It Takes Guts to Be Mentally Ill. Part 2: The Relationship Between the Gut Microbiota and Psychosis

What if his skitzophrenia was brought on by the drugs after he suffered with mononucleosis?

John Hopkins did a study showing mono /HBV linked to skitzophrenia-thus could increase the risk.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2019/01/schizophrenia-linked-with-abnormal-immune-response-to-epstein-barr-virus

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889159121000398#:~:text=Conclusion,later%20depression%20in%20young%20adulthood.

”The combination of mononucleosis and sertraline can influence mood and, in rare cases, psychosis through the 

gut-brain axis, where physical changes in the digestive system directly affect mental health”-

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12038870/#:~:text=These%20cytokines%20can%20cross%20the,the%20gut%20and%20the%20brain.

The gut microbiome is so important.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10843545/#:~:text=5.,targeted%20interventions%20for%20these%20conditions.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12038870/#:~:text=Conclusions,psychobiotics%2C%20also%20require%20careful%20consideration.

What if..mental health is really gut health?

We can  see the patterns -probably because we’re not stuck following guidelines,  not refusing to blame the drug interactions, connecting the dots.

What if we stopped responding to “Mental Health” as a stigma that must be treated with prescription drugs that alter brain chemistry, can alter the gut microbiome and stopped responding to it emotionally and started looking at it biologically?

As one who has lost so much to these prescription drugs, we must start asking what if?

What if 82 lives could have been saved if informed consent had been used? If the psychiatrist had been trained to look at the root cause instead of treat symptoms?

What if the had run bloodwork and labs?

What if it all started in the gut?