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For What It’s Worth by Dr. Melfi , Ph.D.
It goes without saying that we have all been horri ed by the latest mass shootings, and although each life is precious, somehow it breaks your heart twice if it involves innocent children. I have spent the past week or so, as many of you have as well, rst, trying to come up with solutions to gun violence, but then, realizing that the access to guns is part of the problem, but something much deeper and sinister is running amuck. I’m not talking about conspiracy theories, or political views, and not mental health problems, although that is my area, but something that most people are not talking about.
Many of these mass shooters are not mentally ill, although it de es logic to think they could be anything else but insane, but I re ect back on a visitor I had in my o ce 20 years ago. He was the husband of a patient, who came to take her appointment because she became ill, and he didn’t want her to be a no-show. He was an older man, but not elderly, gray hair, tall and husky, rugged for his age, maybe in his 60’s. He was so -spoken, and he laid his hands on my desk for the entire visit. I couldn’t help but notice them, strong, masculine. ey reminded me of the hands of my deceased father, which is probably why I was drawn to look at them. He spoke about this and that, nothing in particular, but there was a wisdom in his words, and I remember not wanting the session to end. He and his wife were moving the following week, so this would be my only encounter with him, but his words stayed with me.
He asked if I had noticed the shi in the population, if I had seen that people weren’t as connected as they once were, as kind, as if some of the emotion of empathy and compassion and been seeping out, slowly. I said, no, I hadn’t noticed that. en he said quietly, keep an eye out. You will see the division in man, of good and evil. It wasn’t necessarily a religious remark, as much as it seemed to be a prediction, of which he had become aware, before the rest of us. I think of that comment o en, and I am going to pass it on to you.
Yes, there are psychopaths, who prey on the weak, and mentally ill persons who are in need of therapy and medication, but digging deeper, I think back on some of the adolescents that I have treated in the past ten years, the lack of respect they had for authority gures, the outspoken anger at their parents, and more than that, something that disturbed me very much. When I looked into their eyes, I saw nothing but hollow. I can’t describe in words what this means, other than to say, that you will know it, if you see it. So, yes, I agree to sti er gun laws, age laws, background checks and mental health treatment. ose things can be addressed and changed. But hollow eyes? at is pure evil.
