It appears that Luka Magnotta’s lawyer will be arguing that his client is not criminally responsible in the murder and dismemberment of Lin Jun because he is suffering from Schizophrenia. I will wait until the evidence gets out before commenting on the specific case but since next week is Mental Illness Awareness Week I thought [...]
Tag Archives: Schizophrenia
200 and counting. I’m still big in Bulgaria!
In today’s Journal Métro is my 200th column. I started in September 2005 and this blog started a couple of years after that. My blog posts are mostly elaborated versions of what I put in my column with a few assorted random postings thrown in. Every other week I scratch my head wondering what I’m [...]
Secret shame
Yesterday I took part in a walk for mental illness. It was good to see a decent (but not great) turnout of about one or two thousand people by my estimate. Although a good number of media outlets were there, I saw no coverage of it on the news I watched. Three other walks and [...]
Mental illness discussed with class and a human touch
If you want a real sense of what it is like to be afflicted with a mental illness, I strongly suggest you check out a website called Breakdown put together by The Globe and Mail. It provides a clear and very human portrait of how lives are affected by schizophrenia, anxiety and depression. In reading [...]
Homelessness and mental illness
As a young student in CEGEP (in Quebec, we replace the last year of high school and the first of university with an intermediate general college system called CEGEPs), I took a course called Poverty in Montreal. I thought it was a joke at first. I had grown up watching starving children in Biafra with [...]
Schizophrenia and the public’s perception
There were some news reports last week in the French-language media of Quebec that discussed the dangerosity of those suffering from Schizophrenia. It was specifically referring to the killing of a couple by their mentally ill son. One cannot deny that there are tragic events related to schizophrenia such as this one. However, they remain [...]
