One thing that scared me to the core.

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It's important to remember that most people with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders are more likely to be victims than being perpetrators.

One thing that scared me is I watched murder mysteries, Most Evil and those documentaries explains how delusions motivate those types of serial killers. Most of those serial killers were found NGRI, but some of those killers where found guilty at first, after some time in prison, their delusions became worse and they were also found NGRI as well. I think it's because to be a serial killer, you need to be very intelligent and especially to cover your tracks, and another reason why some of those killers were found guilty at first, it is because they seem to know right from wrong, by the judge asking simple questions, if they understand the charges, some of those delusional killers said that they do, but were later found NGRI after being found sane. Another thing that scared me is slander case, one of them were found guilty, but I heard they they were also civility committed.

It's like an isolated link between specific types of mental health and criminal behavior. Because, there is such thing as Insanity defense, incompetence, diminished capacity.

I'd also consider the possibility that delusional disorders don't necessarily impede one's ability to function entirely, which might contribute to the extent of the problem being underestimated.

Beyond that, I'd also consider that the experience of being imprisoned might make symptoms worse and they might only started to be acknowledged once that person is demonstrating them more severely.

I don't think criminal justice systems are well-designed for handling those who might have diminished responsibility.

They were found sane at first, just because they seem to know right from wrong from very simple questions from the judge, of course they do understand, they are adults, but that doesn't mean that they can be responsible, delusions clouded their judgment, not only diminished capacity, they are NGRI afterwords.

That is why the legal term of insanity defense is very problematic when used to test older adults who are delusional, because they can seem to know right from wrong on the paper, but couldn't he tested accurately.

It makes sense.

I think that the legal definition should be a little bit more broad and accurate.

This is how it should be:

Legal insanity:

It's when a person doesn't know right from wrong or has delusions that clouded their judgment to make right legal decisions, and or night know right from wrong, but has command hallucinations


That is just an example, that is how it should be in modern psychiatry.

I just don't like the concept if insanity defense, I hate that word even, because to be insane, you don't know right from wrong whatsoever.

But with just delusions, you only don't know right from wrong on what delusions take into effect, because outside of that delusion, you know right from wrong. The whole concept of insanity defence sounds too narrow, and I bet there are more than 0.1 percent of people that are supposed to not be found criminally responsible, because of severe neurodevelopental disorder or delusions, but were tested inaccurately, because judges are not psychiatrists and assume that those defendants know right from wrong, just because they said they do on simple questions the judges asked. It's just sad, to be honest with you.

That makes more sense.

I think instead of Insanity Defense, they should change it NCR, Not Criminally Responsible, because having only delusions doesn't mean you are insane, it just clouds your judgment. But, if you don't understand criminal changes against you, that is incompetence and a different issue.
With command hallucinations, you can understand what you are doing is wrong, but I think diminished capacity is a better fit, because your mind is stuck with intrusive thoughts telling you to do bad things, and you feel very bad about it afterwords when you no longer have those thoughts, because you acted on it.

Those are just examples.

Why when it comes to severe Schizophrenia, it is much easier to proof NGRI than Delusional Disorder?

I am sorry that I asked, because most serial killers with Schizophrenia are found NGRI right after committing crimes, but serial killers with Delusional Disorder are found guilty at first.

This illustrates the stupidity of psychiatry. I am not convinced that mental illness is real but even real mental illnesses could not be distinguished from fake mental illnesses because psychiatrists have no way to OBJECTIVELY test for mental illnesses.

The answer is that people with severe Schizophrenia are incompetent to stand trial, they are not aware that the judge is talking to them, but some with only delusions does understand the criminal charges against them, but they can't be responsible, because delusions clouded their judgment, that is why they are found guilty at first, but got NGRI sometime later when delusions also because worse.

I kind find it very strange, because at the and of the day, mild delusions and severe Schizophrenia are comes from the same phenomena of a very serious mental illness.

The scary thing is that when I watched documentaries of people becoming serial killers, they start to have a fixed, false belief of whom they are targeting and why. I asked my mom why when people kill three or more innocent people, something about their beliefs is delusional, and she explained to me that they have personality disorders that causes delusional thinking and that no one without those types of personality disorders would want to do that to innocent people.

Those personality disorders are Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with symptom of delusions.

Those serial killers that got NGRI were diagnosed with personality disorders, with delusions as a symptom.

I wonder if I am correct.

Article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... ntelligent

I don't really think it has to do with being a savant per say, being a serial criminal and hurting innocent people is very unhealthy, because you start to twist your fantasies and then act on your thoughts, making delusional excuses why you became a serial criminal and hurting innocent people. It's reasons that a very healthy individual, individual without personality disorders that causes twisted fantasies will not understand. There is no good reason to hurt innocent people repeatedly, and it's not healthy.

I don't really agree with one thing from that article. Becoming a serial criminal, and hurting innocent people can cause delusions. There is no good reason to hurt innocent people repeatedly. There is some kind of twisted paranoid fantasies and explanations those types of criminals make after they are cought and interviewed. It's just very unhealthy.

Those delusional thinking is caused by personality disorders.

Judges should get a degree in psychology and psychiatry as well, because criminals with only delusions can understand criminal charges against them, but the responsibility of their actions gets questionined once there is more evidence of their delusions that contributed to criminal behavior.

I think criminals should be in a mental hospital to get proper mental evaluation and see if there is delusions that contributed to criminal behavior, if there is no delusions, then they are found guilty and serve a sentence.