Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Boston Bomber) Schizophrenic?

[DonViejo]

What were the driving forces behind Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two men responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing? Take your pick: poverty, drugs, schizophrenia, history of violence in the family, and isolation as immigrants, according to a five-month long Boston Globe investigation published on Sunday. According to the paper, the Tsarnaev family did not emigrate to the U.S. for asylum, but rather were likely on the run from organized crime, which their father had crossed. Both the Tsarnaev parents received psychiatric help upon their arrival in the U.S. (and their father likely struggled with a form of post-traumatic stress disorder), but they never sought help for Tamerlan and instead directed him toward religion. Dzhokhar, meanwhile, was popular for his partying in college and his casual drug use, before falling under Tamerlan’s influence.

Read it at The Boston Globe

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A very good article about the family.

[MADem]

1. That family was a hot mess, up to their asses in organized crime and assorted criminality.

They lied to get to USA--they were about as persecuted as a fig.

The mother was a felony shoplifter and a grifter.

[seveneyes]

2. directed him toward religion

He is not the first to have the religion warped into a cause to kill infidels. Telling impressionable people they will reap the rewards of many virgins etc often leads them to do unimaginable atrocities. It's an avoidable sickness, just like the sickos that recently murdered many people in a shopping mall when they could not recite Muslim scriptures.

[MADem]

4. The schizophrenia was the seed that caused the problems.

If he didn't have voices in his head, who knows what might have come of him?

I find the news that he may have known Sean Collier (which means he may have ambushed the guy through trickery) very troubling.

They were poorly vetted as candidates to come to USA.

[BainsBane]

3. Sounds like he may have had paranoid schizophrenia

It bears reminding that people with mental illness are actually less violent than the general population and more likely to be victims of violence. Schizophrenia is also highly treatable with medication, though the side effects can be tough. Still, there are exceptions of a few untreated schizophrenics who do become violent.