How Do We Interpret Puberty? Reflection of the Accident in Virginia Tech In the new year of 2016, the audience must have felt a strong sense overcoming when the President of the United States delivered his speech in the White House. As he was discussing gun regulations, he wiped away his tears in front of the world media. With his tearing and quivering voice, he mentioned that children have been dying due to gun violence. On April 16 2007, a tragic incident broke out. A Korean student at Virginia Tech, named SeungHui Jo, killed thirty-two students and put another thirty students in serious condition. According to the Korean newspaper “Money Today”, it analyzes that Jo had suffered from racial discrimination when he was a teenager. As this
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Dr. Bill Knaus, professor of American International College and Founder of Rational Emotive Education, states about Jo’s behavior and emotion. He says “Cho (Jo)’s psychological picture is highly complex with many coexisting factor that are part of the picture, including an ability to remain focused and organized while still action deranged”. Also, he points out that Jo may have suffered from a rare mental disorder called paranoid schizophrenia which is characterized by distrust, suspiciousness and delusions of persecution but his mental disorder statistically is very rare for mentally distress individual to go on a killing spree. Additionally, in a scholarly essay, “Madness after Virginia Tech”, author generally approaches with a psychological view about Jo’s behavior and emotion. However, this essay comments as similar as Dr. Bill Knaus that “Public that statistically speaking ‘people with mental illness are no more violent than people without mental illness’” (Reiss 31) In general, these two essays similarly argue that even though Jo have suffered from mental illness, his mental illness is hardly in consequence of massive violence. If Jo might become aware of his wrong criminal action, he had been completely neglected by racial discrimination for his pubertal period; therefore, he decided to do gun violence, killed many innocent students, and killed himself. Puberty is not …show more content…
In 2009, National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) reported that suicide was the third leading cause for young people ages 15-24 and it is 14.4percent of all death in 2009. NIMH provides different risk factors for suicide but it lists depression on priority of suicide (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-a-major-preventable-mental-health-problem-fact-sheet/index.shtml). The Journal of Cambridge University in U.K, Development and Psychopathology, delivers “The many teenagers are troubled with depression and anxiety, which are most common form of psychopathy in adolescence and adulthood.” In addition, it says, “Adolescence can be considered as high risk development period for the onset and intensification of depression and anxiety symptoms” (Gaysina and Richard, 1331). Moreover, this article describes puberty as “sensitive period” and it points out that the puberty is one of reason of depression and anxiety due to developmental of brain and growth hormone released. In other hand, teenager depression may be affected by their identity formation and they might possibly commit suicides. In a scholarly paper, “I am Sick of Being Me: …Adolescent”, it addresses “Adolescence is a period of self—discovery when internal and external factor impact individual’s increasing awareness of who they are, what they believe in , where life is taking them, and how they fit into a complex society”(Everall
Dr. Bill Knaus, professor of American International College and Founder of Rational Emotive Education, states about Jo’s behavior and emotion. He says “Cho (Jo)’s psychological picture is highly complex with many coexisting factor that are part of the picture, including an ability to remain focused and organized while still action deranged”. Also, he points out that Jo may have suffered from a rare mental disorder called paranoid schizophrenia which is characterized by distrust, suspiciousness and delusions of persecution but his mental disorder statistically is very rare for mentally distress individual to go on a killing spree. Additionally, in a scholarly essay, “Madness after Virginia Tech”, author generally approaches with a psychological view about Jo’s behavior and emotion. However, this essay comments as similar as Dr. Bill Knaus that “Public that statistically speaking ‘people with mental illness are no more violent than people without mental illness’” (Reiss 31) In general, these two essays similarly argue that even though Jo have suffered from mental illness, his mental illness is hardly in consequence of massive violence. If Jo might become aware of his wrong criminal action, he had been completely neglected by racial discrimination for his pubertal period; therefore, he decided to do gun violence, killed many innocent students, and killed himself. Puberty is not …show more content…
In 2009, National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) reported that suicide was the third leading cause for young people ages 15-24 and it is 14.4percent of all death in 2009. NIMH provides different risk factors for suicide but it lists depression on priority of suicide (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-a-major-preventable-mental-health-problem-fact-sheet/index.shtml). The Journal of Cambridge University in U.K, Development and Psychopathology, delivers “The many teenagers are troubled with depression and anxiety, which are most common form of psychopathy in adolescence and adulthood.” In addition, it says, “Adolescence can be considered as high risk development period for the onset and intensification of depression and anxiety symptoms” (Gaysina and Richard, 1331). Moreover, this article describes puberty as “sensitive period” and it points out that the puberty is one of reason of depression and anxiety due to developmental of brain and growth hormone released. In other hand, teenager depression may be affected by their identity formation and they might possibly commit suicides. In a scholarly paper, “I am Sick of Being Me: …Adolescent”, it addresses “Adolescence is a period of self—discovery when internal and external factor impact individual’s increasing awareness of who they are, what they believe in , where life is taking them, and how they fit into a complex society”(Everall