Mental illness more likely behind Afghan shooting than PTSD?

Did they ever once stop to think about the medications they have been handing out calling it treatment?

Mental illness more likely behind Afghan shooting than PTSD, psychiatrist says
By Ashley Hayes, CNN
March 13, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Officials say the suspect was on his fourth deployment
He suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2010 in Iraq but was cleared for duty
Psychiatrist: It's unlikely the solder was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

(CNN) -- While officials have provided few details about the U.S. Army soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan men, women and children in a house-to-house shooting rampage in two villages, one psychiatrist speculated the incident may have stemmed from mental illness, but not necessarily post-traumatic stress disorder.

"Post-traumatic stress disorder has a cluster of symptoms, and violence, or violence against, others is not usually considered part of that diagnosis," said Paul Newhouse, a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and a former Army psychiatrist. "So I think it's more likely that we're going to discover that there was some either psychotic illness or delusional condition or some evidence that this person was more seriously deranged or impaired than we would typically see in PTSD."

An Afghan soldier at the combat outpost spotted the staff sergeant leaving about 3 a.m. Sunday and notified American commanders, said Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force. A head count verified the solder was missing, and a search party was assembled, but "it was as that search party was forming that we began to have indications of the outcome of his departure."
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