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Mentally ill people, who pose a potential danger to society, do not always come to the attention of doctors, law enforcement agencies and social services. As a result, they can commit crimes.

The most frequent crimes among such people are murder, torture, and suicide. Persons with severe mental disorders, excluding sanity, annually commit about 1% of all acts registered in the country that led to the initiation of criminal cases. The proportion of persons with mental disorders accounts for 10-12% of the total number of murders committed, and the proportion of the mentally ill among offenders in prisons is 18-20%.

However, most crimes, including mass shootings of innocent people, as well as most suicides in recent decades have been committed by those who concealed their pathology, were treated secretly or privately, or even had officially established psychiatric diagnoses and received appropriate treatment with the help of modern drugs.

In my opinion, the development of mental disorders is based on many reasons — both psychological and biological. Moreover, the latter are often associated with heredity. Childhood mental trauma, primarily various types of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, have a significant adverse effect on mental health.

Moreover, we can observe a typical scene of emotional abuse of children every day in any Russian city: a mother or a father yelling at a child. It often happens that the mother herself is subjected to violence from her husband, or one or both parents in childhood was in an aggressive environment for which an increased tone and systematic humiliation from others — parents, teachers, peers — is the norm. A serious trauma for the child is the observation of domestic violence, for example, when the child sees the mother beating by the father or even just hears angry skirmishes between the parents.

In terms of the severity of the adverse consequences, neglect of children is equated to the experience of childhood abuse, which, in turn, is subdivided into physical and emotional. An example of emotional neglect is the indifferent reaction of parents to crying and other manifestations of the child’s mental distress.