A sad story. Is modern society driving a few to madness?
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:28 am
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/04/4609015/dad-feels-anguish-disbelief-with.html
Linnea Lomax disappeared in June. Her decomposed body was found last week about two miles from the outpatient mental health clinic she snuck out of.
This whole story begs the question: are the pressures of modern society and a system that demands that youth be superhumanly "successful" driving a few kids insane? The Lomaxes were not "stage parents", forcing their kids to study (unlike the infamous "tiger moms"). But Linnea seems to have absorbed the milieu via osmosis, striving to be "perfect". She apparently couldn't live up to her own standards, and snapped under her self-imposed pressure. The shrinks may be baffled, but I'm not-she likely took on too much, more than she could ever hope to chew, and went nuts. The human mind can only handle so much stress before it gives way, and when one is one's own worst critic it's a million times worse. The sad thing is, being perfect doesn't guarantee success. So many who try end up turning to vices. Linnea didn't smoke, drink, do drugs, party, have a sexual relationship (or a string of them), didn't didn't didn't. She had no outlets for her frustration, she kept it bottled up until she went insane. When every outlet is denied, the mind eventually creates one. She likely, if she had lived, spent her days in a twilight of mental illness. Finally, relief from the pressure.
Linnea Lomax disappeared in June. Her decomposed body was found last week about two miles from the outpatient mental health clinic she snuck out of.
This whole story begs the question: are the pressures of modern society and a system that demands that youth be superhumanly "successful" driving a few kids insane? The Lomaxes were not "stage parents", forcing their kids to study (unlike the infamous "tiger moms"). But Linnea seems to have absorbed the milieu via osmosis, striving to be "perfect". She apparently couldn't live up to her own standards, and snapped under her self-imposed pressure. The shrinks may be baffled, but I'm not-she likely took on too much, more than she could ever hope to chew, and went nuts. The human mind can only handle so much stress before it gives way, and when one is one's own worst critic it's a million times worse. The sad thing is, being perfect doesn't guarantee success. So many who try end up turning to vices. Linnea didn't smoke, drink, do drugs, party, have a sexual relationship (or a string of them), didn't didn't didn't. She had no outlets for her frustration, she kept it bottled up until she went insane. When every outlet is denied, the mind eventually creates one. She likely, if she had lived, spent her days in a twilight of mental illness. Finally, relief from the pressure.