Did The Mental Health System Fail Cho Seung Hui?

Did The Mental Health System Fail Cho Seung-Hui? 

While it is difficult to show compassion to a man who was responsible for the worst shooting rampage in recent history and it is even harder to feel for one who showed enough gall to send rather revealing photos and an ill defined manifesto to NBC, we should remember one important fact surrounding this case, Cho Seung-Hui slipped through the mental health field. Shortly before he was accepted toVirginia
Tech
University he was lock up in a mental hospital, often drugged and under close suicide watch. He had been known as a loose canon so when he entered the school had should all the signs of someone of the edge of something that would consume him.  

From early on the professors and psychologists of Cho Seung Hui were well aware of the road he was going down. His personal counselor begged him to get help but, true to the narcissistic nature of some many mental disorders, Hui was working on an over emphasized sense of self, albeit a distorted sense. But from seeing the pictures and listening to the video, it is obvious that much of Hui’s Zarathustrian image of himself is reminiscent of another famous, and extremely angry and paranoid shooter, Valerie Solanas. While she only shot one person, Andy Warhol. Like Cho she created a justification of her anger which is true to form for anyone who suffers paranoid schizophrenia or other disorders that fit in various categories. But since mental illness is not taken seriously in the
United States until it comes back and bites US back. The common response to mental illness in the
United States is usually something like this, “Ah their making it up. Their not really sick.” Or “Why don’t they get over it?”  As the war in
Iraq is allowed to suck money from social programs, more over site and safeguards collapse, so what you have is a system that is barely functional and is forced to release both those who are safe to go but also those who are known dangers. To be fare though, it was his constitional l right to demand his release but most patience in situation remain under some care and medical information must be summated during the time anyone attends a college. While details usually are not given, for privacy reasons, counselors do have the right to request that any student is removed from an institution if there are signs that he or she is a clear and present danger. The head pf Virginia Tech does not have the privilege of denying any knowledge of any clear and present danger, both Cho’s teachers and his counselor gave plenty warnings as did Cho himself. So it seems curious why he was allowed to remain in the school system.  What ever the reason there is little doubt that the message the Cho sent will hopefully force Americans to rethink their stance on mental illness but from early responses, it is unlikely.  One more thing, while 32 people died in Virginia who will weep for, for the near future, 157 Iraqis were killed on the same day with barely blurb in the back of the news papers.  

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