Tuesday 31 March 2015

Depression Did Not Make the Germanwings Co-Pilot Murder a Plane Full of People

Depression Did Not Make the Germanwings Co-Pilot Murder a Plane Full of People


Because Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz killed himself when he purposefully drove a plane carrying 149 other people into a mountain in the Alps, there has been an assumption that he suffered from “depression”—an assumption strengthened by the discovery of antidepressants in his home and reports that he had been treated in psychiatry and neurology clinics. Many patients and other interested parties are rightly concerned that Lubitz’s murderous behavior will further stigmatize the mentally ill.

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