I read on another Mental health forum of the "new" fad, and thats people mental health shopping online, they try and find a mental illness that they can then use to excuse themselves from life. I think when someone as sick as the VT killer hits the news then those that are really still quite in control of their facitites but "want" to own a mental illness then feel a kind of "disappointment", that after all they aren't as ill as they want to believe.

I think what AS said in her first post, those with serious mental disablitiys would not be able to sit and post as rational and coherently as most of us do.

I'm not sure what others feel about this, but from my own past I know I wanted to much sicker then I am, which isn't a healthier sign in itself, but its a truth.

I think those that have a real serious mental illness don't own up to it, refuse to seek help. Its those that are a concern I feel.