Psychiatrists diagnose psychopathy, not doctors!
"Just because I am more violent than others and cut myself, does that justify some pompous git of a teacher to refer me to a psychiatrist?Was it possible Luke Mitchell feared what the psychiatrist would conclude?
it Wouldnt have changed anything for Luke because no one cared what they did to him or how he reacted.
That's not entirely true is it? His school had concerns.
Didn't he refuse to see the psychiatrist!
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The prosecution highlighted his knife-carrying and cannabis smoking, and claimed he had told another teenager that he knew the way "to slit someone's throat""Left largely to his own devices he became defiant, violent and brooding with an unhealthy fascination with knives, the occult and drugs.
He was first brought to the attention of the mental health profession aged just 11, following a fight at King’s Park Primary in Dalkeith.
Although the incident was just a minor skirmish with another pupil, Mitchell’s attitude was sufficiently troublesome to warrant a referral to a school psychiatrist. However, there appears to have been little further action taken by the education authorities or his parents to curb his behaviour. When he was 12 he threatened his then girlfriend with a knife because she refused to have sex with him. The incidents went on. When he moved to St David’s High, a music teacher found him trying to throttle another pupil and he was sent to an educational psychologist. He refused the expert’s help. Instead Mitchell became a rebellious, mysterious teenager who was heavily into cannabis and supplied his Goth friends with the drug
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https://www.scotsman.com/news/natural-born-killer-1-1401861
