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Certain mental illnesses can lead to homicidal behaviour. Not to say that all people diagnosed with psychosis or psychopathy are inclined to do dangerous things but certain mental illnesses can cause someone to react in a violent manner. Post the columbine massacre, information was released that Dylan Klebold suffered from anger management while his counterpart, Eric Harris suffered from anxiety and depression. Eric Harris was given antidepressants to help treat his depression but he refused to take them, and threw them out into the garbage, (The Final Report, 2007) causing his mental state to further decline into paranoia and worsen his depression. The killers were not targeting anybody specifically but in The Final Report’s documentary of

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