Father left to pick up the pieces after entire family killed in mass stabbing

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But all was not well with De-Zoysa, who was … having thoughts of suicide, Suneetha said.

This never makes any sense to me. How do you go from wanting to kill yourself to killing everyone around you, including children?

Psychotic depression, or psychosis episode by some undiagnosed issue, altered state due to substance/meds mix… the mind is a fragile thing. I’ll (hopefully) never fully understand it, but

Sometimes they’re also just killers with a death wish 🤷‍♂️

Whatever his problem, he’s the only one who made it out unharmed. It wasn’t a murder suicide, or suicide by cop, or regular suicide. I make no excuses for this coward.
You asked a question and got an answer
Well it sounds fun but what if someone annoys you. Don’t you think they should learn to be more careful with strangers?

Trying to make sense of what’s happening inside the thoughts of a mentally ill person is rather futile in my experience.

The mental illness causes their thought process to operate in ways that are not necessarily logical or consistant.

Suicidal thoughts and homicidal thoughts are very similar to each other. Even if we think of it as “harming only yourself to harming everyone but yourself” our brains think of it as “harm a human” and the target is just switched. Plus, harming everyone around you and getting sentenced to life in prison is arguably a greater “self sabotage” than suicide.

Lord only knows. Speaking from personal experience I’m an externalizer so I’ve never had a thought of suicide however I have been on the record telling people there are times when I wish everyone else was dead.

I think it’s the end result that sought after not the action itself. To be alone.