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JOURNAL 1

JOURNAL 2 Support Mrs. Klebold's Stance on Mental Health and Violent Criminal Behavior The Columbine shooting in 1999 was significantly influenced by the fact that mental health went unnoticed. Mental health plays an essential role in the cognitive process in the brain. The cognitive process, the thinking or conscious mental process, otherwise known as executive functions. According to DeLise (2019) “ Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes such as memory, attention, planning, and emotional and behavioral regulation that are essential for the cognitive control of behavior” (pg. 4.4). Dylan Klebold was a student who according to his mom Mrs. Klebold, “wrote on a piece of paper in a notebook that he was cutting himself. He said that he was in agony and wanted to get a gun so he could end his life.” (2016, 3:27). Dylan battled depression, which led to an ill-functioning cognitive process; he was unable to mentally process his emotions, thoughts, and therefore actions correctly while fighting mental illness that consumed his executive functions. In conclusion, Mrs. Klebold is right to correlate her son's mental health to the violence he committed because it significantly influences behaviors interrupting how a person thinks, feels and acts leading to a malfunctioning cognitive process. Why was the tragedy unable to be prevented? Mrs. Klebold, like many who do not know the signs of mental illness because often they are hidden, or apparent symptoms or signs of mental illness, was at no fault for not seeing it in her son. Mental illness even with some signs is commonly hard to diagnose. More often than not love is blinding, meaning “that someone we love would never think of hurting themselves or someone else, can cause us to miss what's hidden in plain sight” (Klebod, 2016, 12:19). Although love can be blinding, it is hard on professionals to get a diagnosis of mental conditions too. D iagnosing mental disorders is challenging because it is not diagnosable with the traditional

JOURNAL 3 methods of diagnosing disease (physical conditions) (DeLisi, 2019). In turn, sometimes, it takes a process of elimination of physical conditions through lab tests, x-rays, or MRI to ensure there is no biological link to the dysfunction in thinking, behavior, and emotion regulation. Upon confirmation of no physical conditions creating cognitive malfunctions in a person, the person would undergo evaluations from a professional for mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and personality disorders. There are sometimes no apparent signs of depression; for instance, Mrs. Klebod states, “that no matter how much we want to believe we can, we cannot know or control everything our loved ones think and feel” (2016, 12:19). In conclusion, loved ones can be incapable of recognizing signs of people with mental illness, and symptoms are not always prominent; therefore, it can be challenging and time-consuming to diagnose, treat, and prevent boys from committing crimes.

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JOURNAL 4 References DeLisi, M., Schwartz, S., & Klein, E. (2019). Criminal psychology (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://content.uagc.edu Klebold, S. (2016, November). My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story [Video file].2016. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/sue_klebold_my_son_was_a_columbine_shooter_this_is_my_ story?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

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