I can’t say exactly what is going on in the case of the Colorado movie theater shooter — I just do not have all the knowledge and all the facts. I am happy this young man was able to find the psychiatric services at  his local institute of higher education.  Many students cannot.  Sometimes I even  have to alert my patients who are eligible for such services that such services exist. Psychiatrist Lynne Fenton’s past as an acupuncturist is colorful, at least.  I have been to so many places and done so many things, that I do not  think anyone should be condemned by their past.

In the past, Dr. Fenton has been disciplined by her medical board for prescribing rather strong drugs to herself and family.  I suppose people are sometimes overcome in circumstances such as the death of a relative like Mom.  She is back practicing with not more than a slap on the wrist and a mark on her  record.  Appropriate for this level of wrongdoing I think, if there are really no other circumstances.  As for the accused shooter’s notebook with the stick figures and the shooters, I have seen many such notebooks — but never from a patient.  I saw them in 2nd, 3rd or more rarely in 4th grade on the desks of male classmates who fantasized about such things. The operative word here is “fantasize.” Read more on Colorado Shooter’s Drawings May Have Been A Warning…