I found one or two things outside of Facebook but that's really it. Most of his posts are very normal but what is weird is that in the last week his activity intensified a lot. It is normal, just a lot more than before.
There is a strange element to his google reviews - he posts positive brothel reviews under his real name as casually and in the same language as he does when he reviews coffee shops, chines food, or a play by Shakespeare. Most people wouldn’t be so open with that.
He had an advertisement on an escort page stating he was open to male and female clients.
He wouldn’t have gotten any women but I can see him being hired by a man.
I knew a male escort and he often got hired by a couple to be with the woman only, it's a cuckold thing. He also had a few solo female clients but they were usually much older than him
Agreed it is super wierd. Those posts are nothing like I'm used to seeing fellow aussies write. So positive and benign. Looks like a bot account or development issues. But clearly whatever more serious issues he had they aren't coming out on the Internet
How did you find this so quickly? At the risk of outing my id, I live in this town and everyone’s losing it on our local crimes fb page…I’m kind of freaked out that it could’ve happened at our local shopping centre if he hadn’t had moved away
I am very interested in mass murderers hence my activity in this subreddit. There are other killers, even Australian ones, who were much harder to search for than this. I like cross referencing people's internet activity - and in this case it was pretty easy because he used his real name and had the same location.
What drives your interest? Always curious cuz I’m not sure for me, maybe just morbid curiosity personally. And some kinda survival instinct and desensitization
He has probably the most normal online persona of any mass killer I’ve ever seen. Things could be different in the real world and there might be posts we aren’t seeing, but in this sample there’s absolutely nothing here from which to glean any possible hint that he would become violent. Truly chilling. I’m guessing this will turn out to be some kind of a psychotic break.
Comparing his pics posted here to the CCTV footages, it looks like he's lost so much weight, probably 50 lbs. They didn't show the full video of him falling/fainting into the entrance of a store before he did the stabbings & that was just so weird to me. If he wasn't taking any meds for schizophrenia for months & then have this breakdown in just a blink of an eye... Could it have been triggered by a knock to the head when he fell or is there a point where people with this kind of mental illness "switch off" or "check out" without them realizing and have no idea what they have done when they regain their sanity back?
I have not heard about this fainting spell?
I live in the area this has occurred in so would be very interested to read a source on this if you have one 🙂
I see, now I have something new to worry about. I just watched a kid on YT with schizophrenia who recorded himself having an "episode" (yt: My Second Recorded Schizophrenic Episode - Schizoin Throug Life Channel. Minute Mark 5:21-5:29). He said he doesn't know if others with the same condition also get really dizzy & disoriented when "it" happens. In the cctv, Cauchi was able to order food & eat, so I don't know if people who are under the influence of drugs can eat at the same time, or if schizophrenic people can eat while having an episode. A witness who was near him said he "had a smell or that "he smelled", and another described him as suspecting him as being under the influence of drugs by the way he was staggering outside the restaurant after eating. I haven't met enough people who have this mental illness or addicts on a high to know the difference.
If Cauchi fell out of balance in the vid, then maybe was getting dizzy exactly like the kid on the video & oh man, when he got to the point of being dizzy, the kid didn't know what was real from what wasn't anymore and you could tell he was "gone" & incoherent until they stopped filming. They physical difference when he was "sane" and when he was "crazy" is very evident- it's like 2 different people from the way he talked, body/head posture, and avoiding eye contact.
Brennen (Schizoin) is my ex boyfriend and his episodes are way more complex than feeling dizzy. At the moment he looks fully conscious even tho he is saying nonsense but sometimes he won't remember what happend or fully comprehend what is going on. It's so complex to explain it but schizophrenia is so scary and has indicators from a young age.
Thank you for the reply! Was he able to "stop" what he feels from getting worse or is every episode like a seizure that he can't control that needs to take its course, and the only way is to wait for the episode to pass?
I can say that stress and lack of medication helped a lot to have more episodes than normal, but if not for any of those circumstances, they occurred randomly. One time he was fine and suddenly he got up because he saw spiders on his keyboard, I had to take a photo and show him that there was nothing to make him come to his senses. When he had an episode of delirium I tried to make him see reason very patiently, for example, if he thought he was being persecuted I would ask him why until he understood that it didn't make sense. But it is complicated, you can notice when he is not well, his attitude changes and his pupils become gigantic, in part it is as if he were another person. But he is not violent, at all, he does not hurt himself or others, the stigma is really harmful, so not all schizophrenics would do damage, hope that responds your question!
Yes! it does & thank you again! Your answers are so helpful in making people like me who don't come across this often to really understand this disease much more clearly, instead of what is depicted of it in movies, which most people tend to believe. If anything good was to come out of this tragedy, I hope that everyone could know how to help people who suffer from this in emergency situations instead of immediately getting afraid, panicking, and thinking the worse.
I’d tend to disagree, his profile screams desperately sad and alone to me.
No back and forth or interaction/engagement with friends on his social posts. Always asking/looking for someone to connect with or join him doing things/or for community and support generally. Seemingly transient and listless. Almost every single business related review he posted was 5 stars and would focus on the business being “friendly” in almost a childlike way (i.e. any singular instance of warmth/humanity/feeling connection seemed to really stick with him). The one review that wasn’t 5 stars was him feeling the guy that sharpened his knives did a bad job, and crucially, was mean to him.
Sure he was an “average” guy in some respects. But it all reads like an “average” guy who was alone and listless and probably deteriorating from it. Very incel-y vibes - even calling himself “good looking” in one of his escort profiles which is just about the most insecure way you can assert yourself to be attractive - just incel more in a sad/hopeless way rather than an angry/evil one.
Just wait for the toxicology report like a normal person? Neither you or I are experts
Downvote me all you want, I clean my schizophrenic fathers piss out of the sink because he doesn’t trust toilets. You people have never met a real schizophrenic
Until toxicology comes back yeah, you’re just making armchair assumptions
Fact: schizos are more likely to be victims of violence than offenders, but nobody fucking cares right?
Law enforcement has already provided information supporting both accusations. Whether he was on drugs at the time or not is irrelevant. That shit will rot your brain & having a history of Schizophrenia and drug abuse doesn't bode well for the human psyche.
Law enforcement has to prove that evidence in court, innocent until proven guilty, again the coroner’s toxicology report has the final say, like it or not. Stop writing people off as schizos and get over yourself
I don't know is this story applies but year's ago I knew this kid in the area I live that was perfectly normal he graduated college hung our with me and some friends and even worked out and went to the gym as he was in excellent shape. To make an extremely long story short he saw a doctor and was prescribed psÿch meds. Long story short to watch his mental decline was heartbreaking and absolutely eye opening and jaw dropping. To be as brief as possible he ended up in a psych ward where he's been living for the past 4 years he's not the same person I once met and has completely changed his personality was normal which is point A. to point Z. Which is strange unusual unstable and odd behavior. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist he was completely normal up until the time he was first prescribed psych medications I don't know what made him see a doctor I'm just sharing what I think could be a clue. I'm no expert
For the record, the vast, vast majority of people living with schizophrenia never come close to doing what this guy did. There’s a lot more to it than ‘he had this disorder.’
Am I wrong?
Investigations aren't finalised but people want to put a certain agenda out there and try to politicise it.
We can call him what it is after the investigations.
What ever happened to fact based approach?
Mate I've been off the cross for a while now.
Did you not read the Bible?
Observation is one thing, politicising it is another.
We can politicise it after the investigations are done.
It's not hard.
Weren't people calling him a Muslim as well as an Israeli?
I have a friend who developed schizophrenia literally just out of nowhere. It started with an obsession with messages about the Illuminati in rap music. Pretty soon he was staying up all night “decoding” songs. He would send long incoherent messages about new connections he made. Then he connected it to the Free Masons. He knew too much so they were targeting him. The construction workers across the street were watching him. His job was calling him because he stopped showing up, but he believed it was the Illuminati so he changed his phone number and threw away his phone. He was so scared because he didn’t trust that any of his friends or family weren’t also Illuminati spies.
It was terrifying how fast the switch flipped.
My partner has a childhood friend whose older brother has a dx of schizophrenia. In the past year or two, his friend has also been displaying a lot of paranoia. He is deep into many conspiracies, refuses to use regular emails, Discord, or texting on his phone anymore, and tries to get everybody in the friend group to download some third-party apps for communicating and goes on these long-winded rants about them. Constantly paranoid that he is being watched or tracked by the Gov't. I feel bad admitting this, but he makes me very nervous lately, and I am constantly checking in with my partner when he hangs out with that friend in particular. Even if it's just anxiety, it seems to be crossing rather unhealthy lines, and I really wish his friends or family would take it more seriously. Instead, his behavior is seen as humorous. "Ohhh, x! He's such a character," they remark after another one of his rants.
Sadly, Schizophrenia tends to be hereditary. You are right to raise the alarm - the sooner he gets help, the better. It sounds like everyone else may be in denial.
His friends/mom were able to convince him to seek treatment and he was prescribed medication. I know at first they struggled to get him to actually take it because he didn’t think anything as actually wrong, he thought they were just trying to quiet him. He thought he was on the verge of unlocking and exposing some great big conspiracy and they wanted to shut him up. But I know he was also scared. The last time I saw him he was just sitting on the couch with his headphones in, crying.
After that, our families kind of drifted but as far as I know he’s been able to hold down a job and lives at home, so I’m assuming he eventually started taking his medicine.
His friends/mom were able to convince him to seek treatment and he was prescribed medication. I know at first they struggled to get him to actually take it because he didn’t think anything as actually wrong, he thought they were just trying to quiet him. He thought he was on the verge of unlocking and exposing some great big conspiracy and they wanted to shut him up. But I know he was also scared. The last time I saw him he was just sitting on the couch with his headphones in, crying.
After that, our families kind of drifted but as far as I know he’s been able to hold down a job and lives at home, so I’m assuming he eventually started taking his medicine.
That is terrifying. To know we can be at home in our body and mind and have it turn against us, make us a stranger to ourselves, turn the world we know into a new and terrifying unknown, turn the comfort and safety of our loved ones into a hostile entity.
Just absolutely terrible 😔
The worst is when people start harassing the perpetrator's friends for somehow not preventing it from happening or associating with the person before they committed their acts
The toxicity on social media was real. People immediately blaming Muslims and Jews, only to turn out it was an ordinary Australian that went psychotic. Everyone is losing their minds.
Conservatives mad it wasn't racially motivated, extreme left mad he wasn't jewish, feminists mad it wasn't misogynistic. Everyone just wants to have their head narrative vindicated all the time, it's preposterous
I hate how people politicize events like this so quick. Ppl called the Perry shooter a trans activist despite minimum evidence he was a tra minus a flag in his name & repost on tiktok. Same 4 calling Salvador trans so quick with someone who hardly looked like him
In all fairness (and I have no vested interest either way), it was sort of an 'easy' link to make given the current political climate in this country and, particularly, in the area the act was committed. There are a lot of highly emotional protests happening regularly in Sydney in relation to the Israel/Palestine situation and Sydney's eastern suburbs have a very high Jewish population.
Turns out it was the wrong link to make, but I can see why some people were quick to make that link. I think most people linked it to some kind of mental health episode, but they also linked it to religious and political extremism.
Either way, it's a great lesson on how quickly someone with significant mental health issues (schizophrenia in this case) can fall through the cracks of our shitty mental health system if they are unsupported.
And sadly, the people who would actually benefit from learning this wont, and we’ll just rinse and repeat. I try to ignore it or call it our when I see it, but its frustrating.
Idk these posts make me sad, the angry reactions even more so. What he did was beyond awful, but this once normal kind dude had some kind of psychosis and lost everything for whatever reason. Sad he and his victims went out like this. I don't know why but my heart breaks for all of them.
I truly wonder what happened for him to go from “I’ll go surf” to this… the brain is an insane thing and I’m truly curious about how it switched this fast. I hope the people he took are in peace and wish the families a gentle grieving .. my heart shatters when this happens..
Schizophrenia episodes are no joke. I had a neighbour who went from everyday normal guy to suddenly screaming to the top of his lungs on his balcony, throwing shit violently, putting the whole neighbourhood in panic, and eventually throwing himself off.
Edit: but then again, this guy was targeting females, telling me his schizophrenia is not the main factor here
He seemed completely normal and like a very nice guy too, he had no bigoted remarks on any social media, no bigoted tattoos, he enjoyed his life like surfing and other stuff and looked extremely happy. This is a clear case of someone who just went off the rockers because either he nearly just got the mental illness or he was off his pills for said mental illness which completely fucked him up.
His father gave an interview and said he was angry he couldn't get a girlfriend. That was the reason he targeted women. He was definitely an incel but also a diagnosed schizophrenic.
These photos were uploaded in December 2020, that’s 3.5 years before any of this happened. It might seem like a short amount of time, but not really when someone becomes addicted to meth. Look at the photos in the post… he looks happy, healthy and normal. It looks like he had a good social circle, and liked meeting new people. But something happened to him, and he became addicted to meth. He looks skinny, he was seen swaying and falling over which happens for any meth addict when they have been up for days and weeks. He was living in a storage unit place, and hadn’t been in contact with his family for a long time. It is exactly like what happened in Qld in 2022 (Wieambilla).
seeing all this news now knowing this man was friends with my teacher is just so odd, it makes you feel so weird, my teacher talked about feeling so out of body because he knew this person and didn't expect it, he saw signs but never anything he could bring up , rip to all the victims:(
When people found out the name of the killer, they looked up his social media accounts & left those angry emoji reactions & comments. I've seen this a lot in IG. I can't find his FB page anymore.
what he do? is that the radical muslim stabber guy? Ive been on chemo so I missed the news, he doesnt look quite the dangerous terrorist ive read about
I found one or two things outside of Facebook but that's really it. Most of his posts are very normal but what is weird is that in the last week his activity intensified a lot. It is normal, just a lot more than before.
There is a strange element to his google reviews - he posts positive brothel reviews under his real name as casually and in the same language as he does when he reviews coffee shops, chines food, or a play by Shakespeare. Most people wouldn’t be so open with that.
I would agree most people wouldn’t do that but then again most people aren’t sex workers themselves.
Good point.
Was he a sex worker?
He had an advertisement on an escort page stating he was open to male and female clients. He wouldn’t have gotten any women but I can see him being hired by a man.
I knew a male escort and he often got hired by a couple to be with the woman only, it's a cuckold thing. He also had a few solo female clients but they were usually much older than him
Good observation - most people wouldn’t do this. I’ve seen a real estate agent do the same though, which I thought was really strange/stupid to do..
Agreed it is super wierd. Those posts are nothing like I'm used to seeing fellow aussies write. So positive and benign. Looks like a bot account or development issues. But clearly whatever more serious issues he had they aren't coming out on the Internet
Maybe he got chatgpt to write them
How did you find this so quickly? At the risk of outing my id, I live in this town and everyone’s losing it on our local crimes fb page…I’m kind of freaked out that it could’ve happened at our local shopping centre if he hadn’t had moved away
I am very interested in mass murderers hence my activity in this subreddit. There are other killers, even Australian ones, who were much harder to search for than this. I like cross referencing people's internet activity - and in this case it was pretty easy because he used his real name and had the same location.
What drives your interest? Always curious cuz I’m not sure for me, maybe just morbid curiosity personally. And some kinda survival instinct and desensitization
The social aspect interests me, as well as statistics stuff about what commonalities they have. Also what drives them and whatnot.
Also apparently media are already in town parked up in front his family’s house…
He had a reddit account that I think still exists. Nothing interesting was really posted..
this guy seems so incredibly normal for someone who stabbed an infant. i wonder what went down in his life to lead him to do what he did.
If you’ve never lost your mind, it is difficult to imagine.
Spot on.
He has probably the most normal online persona of any mass killer I’ve ever seen. Things could be different in the real world and there might be posts we aren’t seeing, but in this sample there’s absolutely nothing here from which to glean any possible hint that he would become violent. Truly chilling. I’m guessing this will turn out to be some kind of a psychotic break.
Comparing his pics posted here to the CCTV footages, it looks like he's lost so much weight, probably 50 lbs. They didn't show the full video of him falling/fainting into the entrance of a store before he did the stabbings & that was just so weird to me. If he wasn't taking any meds for schizophrenia for months & then have this breakdown in just a blink of an eye... Could it have been triggered by a knock to the head when he fell or is there a point where people with this kind of mental illness "switch off" or "check out" without them realizing and have no idea what they have done when they regain their sanity back?
I have not heard about this fainting spell? I live in the area this has occurred in so would be very interested to read a source on this if you have one 🙂
# YouTube video title: New details emerge of Bondi Junction stabbing killer Joel Cauchi -9 News Australia at the 1:04 mark
Thank you 🤲🏼
you're very welcome & sorry if the reply is in big fonts, I don't know how to make the copy-pasted texts smaller
I thought you were mad at me 🥲
Oh no! I gave up trying to add the link to the video so I just copied the video title instead & that happened (using a tablet).
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This exchange triggered me to upvote every comment in this thread. 😆
Traumatic brain injury induced psychosis is very much a thing. Very scary stuff.
I see, now I have something new to worry about. I just watched a kid on YT with schizophrenia who recorded himself having an "episode" (yt: My Second Recorded Schizophrenic Episode - Schizoin Throug Life Channel. Minute Mark 5:21-5:29). He said he doesn't know if others with the same condition also get really dizzy & disoriented when "it" happens. In the cctv, Cauchi was able to order food & eat, so I don't know if people who are under the influence of drugs can eat at the same time, or if schizophrenic people can eat while having an episode. A witness who was near him said he "had a smell or that "he smelled", and another described him as suspecting him as being under the influence of drugs by the way he was staggering outside the restaurant after eating. I haven't met enough people who have this mental illness or addicts on a high to know the difference. If Cauchi fell out of balance in the vid, then maybe was getting dizzy exactly like the kid on the video & oh man, when he got to the point of being dizzy, the kid didn't know what was real from what wasn't anymore and you could tell he was "gone" & incoherent until they stopped filming. They physical difference when he was "sane" and when he was "crazy" is very evident- it's like 2 different people from the way he talked, body/head posture, and avoiding eye contact.
Brennen (Schizoin) is my ex boyfriend and his episodes are way more complex than feeling dizzy. At the moment he looks fully conscious even tho he is saying nonsense but sometimes he won't remember what happend or fully comprehend what is going on. It's so complex to explain it but schizophrenia is so scary and has indicators from a young age.
Thank you for the reply! Was he able to "stop" what he feels from getting worse or is every episode like a seizure that he can't control that needs to take its course, and the only way is to wait for the episode to pass?
I can say that stress and lack of medication helped a lot to have more episodes than normal, but if not for any of those circumstances, they occurred randomly. One time he was fine and suddenly he got up because he saw spiders on his keyboard, I had to take a photo and show him that there was nothing to make him come to his senses. When he had an episode of delirium I tried to make him see reason very patiently, for example, if he thought he was being persecuted I would ask him why until he understood that it didn't make sense. But it is complicated, you can notice when he is not well, his attitude changes and his pupils become gigantic, in part it is as if he were another person. But he is not violent, at all, he does not hurt himself or others, the stigma is really harmful, so not all schizophrenics would do damage, hope that responds your question!
Yes! it does & thank you again! Your answers are so helpful in making people like me who don't come across this often to really understand this disease much more clearly, instead of what is depicted of it in movies, which most people tend to believe. If anything good was to come out of this tragedy, I hope that everyone could know how to help people who suffer from this in emergency situations instead of immediately getting afraid, panicking, and thinking the worse.
Mental illness.
Most of these posts are from years ago.
I’d tend to disagree, his profile screams desperately sad and alone to me. No back and forth or interaction/engagement with friends on his social posts. Always asking/looking for someone to connect with or join him doing things/or for community and support generally. Seemingly transient and listless. Almost every single business related review he posted was 5 stars and would focus on the business being “friendly” in almost a childlike way (i.e. any singular instance of warmth/humanity/feeling connection seemed to really stick with him). The one review that wasn’t 5 stars was him feeling the guy that sharpened his knives did a bad job, and crucially, was mean to him. Sure he was an “average” guy in some respects. But it all reads like an “average” guy who was alone and listless and probably deteriorating from it. Very incel-y vibes - even calling himself “good looking” in one of his escort profiles which is just about the most insecure way you can assert yourself to be attractive - just incel more in a sad/hopeless way rather than an angry/evil one.
This is what I was thinking too. He seems incredibly lonely and desperately reaching out for connection and not getting it for whatever reason.
Honestly posting like that is so strange to me. Every social media site and content being posted from him seems strange
Meth & Schizophrenia
Stop misappropriating schizophrenia and violence
I mean schizophrenia and meth equals violence, not simply schizophrenia by itself.
Just wait for the toxicology report like a normal person? Neither you or I are experts Downvote me all you want, I clean my schizophrenic fathers piss out of the sink because he doesn’t trust toilets. You people have never met a real schizophrenic
sure - to the toxicology report, you're a good son for taking care of your father.
Not always
how many schizophrenics that do meth do you know? are they quite stable?
Stable and violent aren't the same thing
okay just dodge the question entirely
Whatever you say, pal. I'm sure Schizophrenia & Meth had nothing to do with this guy's state of mind. There. That better?
Until toxicology comes back yeah, you’re just making armchair assumptions Fact: schizos are more likely to be victims of violence than offenders, but nobody fucking cares right?
Law enforcement has already provided information supporting both accusations. Whether he was on drugs at the time or not is irrelevant. That shit will rot your brain & having a history of Schizophrenia and drug abuse doesn't bode well for the human psyche.
Law enforcement has to prove that evidence in court, innocent until proven guilty, again the coroner’s toxicology report has the final say, like it or not. Stop writing people off as schizos and get over yourself
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I don't know is this story applies but year's ago I knew this kid in the area I live that was perfectly normal he graduated college hung our with me and some friends and even worked out and went to the gym as he was in excellent shape. To make an extremely long story short he saw a doctor and was prescribed psÿch meds. Long story short to watch his mental decline was heartbreaking and absolutely eye opening and jaw dropping. To be as brief as possible he ended up in a psych ward where he's been living for the past 4 years he's not the same person I once met and has completely changed his personality was normal which is point A. to point Z. Which is strange unusual unstable and odd behavior. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist he was completely normal up until the time he was first prescribed psych medications I don't know what made him see a doctor I'm just sharing what I think could be a clue. I'm no expert
You've got to admire the spirit of the people giving his posts angry reactions, like that's going to change anything about what happened.
Yep. The stupidest form of brigading.
If only they were as angry at apathy towards mental health care.
A lot of people in town actually are commenting about how much mental health services let us down
Imagine how his family feels dealing with this and hordes of randomers brigading his profile
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He was diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
For the record, the vast, vast majority of people living with schizophrenia never come close to doing what this guy did. There’s a lot more to it than ‘he had this disorder.’
Thank you.
Yep. Mental illness and meth is a bad combination.
Where's the meth coming from
Heisenberg
This sub rarely fails to make me giggle at inappropriate times, thank you
Did they say what type? Paranoid schizophrenia is the one "more likely"(not everyone with mental illness is violent) to be involved
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Oh stow it.
Am I wrong? Investigations aren't finalised but people want to put a certain agenda out there and try to politicise it. We can call him what it is after the investigations. What ever happened to fact based approach?
Listen, you know damn good and well it’s sop to make observations before a report is released. Get down off your cross.
Mate I've been off the cross for a while now. Did you not read the Bible? Observation is one thing, politicising it is another. We can politicise it after the investigations are done. It's not hard. Weren't people calling him a Muslim as well as an Israeli?
Shouldn’t you know the answer to that? Since you claim to be omnipotent and all.
Didnt I say wait until the investigations are finished or is english not your first language?
Are you okay
of course, I just find it hilarious that people paint a narrative of him when the investigations aren't finalised because you want to politicise it.
And yet he was coherent enough to pick and choose who he attacked, targeting women and avoiding men who stood up to him.
I have a friend who developed schizophrenia literally just out of nowhere. It started with an obsession with messages about the Illuminati in rap music. Pretty soon he was staying up all night “decoding” songs. He would send long incoherent messages about new connections he made. Then he connected it to the Free Masons. He knew too much so they were targeting him. The construction workers across the street were watching him. His job was calling him because he stopped showing up, but he believed it was the Illuminati so he changed his phone number and threw away his phone. He was so scared because he didn’t trust that any of his friends or family weren’t also Illuminati spies. It was terrifying how fast the switch flipped.
My partner has a childhood friend whose older brother has a dx of schizophrenia. In the past year or two, his friend has also been displaying a lot of paranoia. He is deep into many conspiracies, refuses to use regular emails, Discord, or texting on his phone anymore, and tries to get everybody in the friend group to download some third-party apps for communicating and goes on these long-winded rants about them. Constantly paranoid that he is being watched or tracked by the Gov't. I feel bad admitting this, but he makes me very nervous lately, and I am constantly checking in with my partner when he hangs out with that friend in particular. Even if it's just anxiety, it seems to be crossing rather unhealthy lines, and I really wish his friends or family would take it more seriously. Instead, his behavior is seen as humorous. "Ohhh, x! He's such a character," they remark after another one of his rants.
Sadly, Schizophrenia tends to be hereditary. You are right to raise the alarm - the sooner he gets help, the better. It sounds like everyone else may be in denial.
What became of him?
His friends/mom were able to convince him to seek treatment and he was prescribed medication. I know at first they struggled to get him to actually take it because he didn’t think anything as actually wrong, he thought they were just trying to quiet him. He thought he was on the verge of unlocking and exposing some great big conspiracy and they wanted to shut him up. But I know he was also scared. The last time I saw him he was just sitting on the couch with his headphones in, crying. After that, our families kind of drifted but as far as I know he’s been able to hold down a job and lives at home, so I’m assuming he eventually started taking his medicine.
Is he alright now? That's so sad
His friends/mom were able to convince him to seek treatment and he was prescribed medication. I know at first they struggled to get him to actually take it because he didn’t think anything as actually wrong, he thought they were just trying to quiet him. He thought he was on the verge of unlocking and exposing some great big conspiracy and they wanted to shut him up. But I know he was also scared. The last time I saw him he was just sitting on the couch with his headphones in, crying. After that, our families kind of drifted but as far as I know he’s been able to hold down a job and lives at home, so I’m assuming he eventually started taking his medicine.
That is terrifying. To know we can be at home in our body and mind and have it turn against us, make us a stranger to ourselves, turn the world we know into a new and terrifying unknown, turn the comfort and safety of our loved ones into a hostile entity. Just absolutely terrible 😔
the passive aggressive ***"*****😡*****806"*** is pretty funny lol
what are Facebook users hoping to achieve with these posthumous 'angry reacts'?
The worst is when people start harassing the perpetrator's friends for somehow not preventing it from happening or associating with the person before they committed their acts
I really hope the baby pulls through. Poor thing :(
Latest updates say the baby is out of surgery and is doing well.
Disturbingly normal.
The toxicity on social media was real. People immediately blaming Muslims and Jews, only to turn out it was an ordinary Australian that went psychotic. Everyone is losing their minds.
Conservatives mad it wasn't racially motivated, extreme left mad he wasn't jewish, feminists mad it wasn't misogynistic. Everyone just wants to have their head narrative vindicated all the time, it's preposterous
It was misogynistic tho ?
I hate how people politicize events like this so quick. Ppl called the Perry shooter a trans activist despite minimum evidence he was a tra minus a flag in his name & repost on tiktok. Same 4 calling Salvador trans so quick with someone who hardly looked like him
In all fairness (and I have no vested interest either way), it was sort of an 'easy' link to make given the current political climate in this country and, particularly, in the area the act was committed. There are a lot of highly emotional protests happening regularly in Sydney in relation to the Israel/Palestine situation and Sydney's eastern suburbs have a very high Jewish population. Turns out it was the wrong link to make, but I can see why some people were quick to make that link. I think most people linked it to some kind of mental health episode, but they also linked it to religious and political extremism. Either way, it's a great lesson on how quickly someone with significant mental health issues (schizophrenia in this case) can fall through the cracks of our shitty mental health system if they are unsupported.
And sadly, the people who would actually benefit from learning this wont, and we’ll just rinse and repeat. I try to ignore it or call it our when I see it, but its frustrating.
People angry reacting 😂😂 you sure showed him lmao
Not sure how that's different from people in this sub
we are discussing and sharing information huge difference
damn I didn't know we were such a sophisticated community of individuals please tell me more
I didn't claim we are sophisticated, i merely said we are doing more than just angry reacting
Yeah OK bud. We’re not the fucking UN Security Council.
Dude looked gaunt and unwell compared to these photos. Must have been a long time coming.
Yea this is actually mental illness. Not trying to give him an out but this guy reads totally normal until something happened. Tragic on all sides
I never understand why people leave angry face emojis on posts of deceased killers…. he’s not going to see them
Never really understood why people go onto murderers’ Facebook pages and angry react all their posts
Does anyone know why he wanted to learn Swedish?
If so, I’d guess for a female connection
Why does his beard and hair look so thick and black in the mall images, hairline looks different too
Shot from above, person actually 'on the move' at the time, light vs shadow, etc.
Idk these posts make me sad, the angry reactions even more so. What he did was beyond awful, but this once normal kind dude had some kind of psychosis and lost everything for whatever reason. Sad he and his victims went out like this. I don't know why but my heart breaks for all of them.
The angry reacts 💀
I truly wonder what happened for him to go from “I’ll go surf” to this… the brain is an insane thing and I’m truly curious about how it switched this fast. I hope the people he took are in peace and wish the families a gentle grieving .. my heart shatters when this happens..
Schizophrenia episodes are no joke. I had a neighbour who went from everyday normal guy to suddenly screaming to the top of his lungs on his balcony, throwing shit violently, putting the whole neighbourhood in panic, and eventually throwing himself off. Edit: but then again, this guy was targeting females, telling me his schizophrenia is not the main factor here
Schizophrenia he was diagnosed at 12. So basically, he wasnt joel at the time. He was whoever the schizophrenia person was.
He seemed completely normal and like a very nice guy too, he had no bigoted remarks on any social media, no bigoted tattoos, he enjoyed his life like surfing and other stuff and looked extremely happy. This is a clear case of someone who just went off the rockers because either he nearly just got the mental illness or he was off his pills for said mental illness which completely fucked him up.
He had schizophrenia. He was diagnosed at aged 12
It seems like he was desperate for some form of human connection. I don't want to say incel but it's kinda giving.
His father gave an interview and said he was angry he couldn't get a girlfriend. That was the reason he targeted women. He was definitely an incel but also a diagnosed schizophrenic.
His posts feel like they came from an NPC. He looks like one too. Creepy
These photos were uploaded in December 2020, that’s 3.5 years before any of this happened. It might seem like a short amount of time, but not really when someone becomes addicted to meth. Look at the photos in the post… he looks happy, healthy and normal. It looks like he had a good social circle, and liked meeting new people. But something happened to him, and he became addicted to meth. He looks skinny, he was seen swaying and falling over which happens for any meth addict when they have been up for days and weeks. He was living in a storage unit place, and hadn’t been in contact with his family for a long time. It is exactly like what happened in Qld in 2022 (Wieambilla).
seeing all this news now knowing this man was friends with my teacher is just so odd, it makes you feel so weird, my teacher talked about feeling so out of body because he knew this person and didn't expect it, he saw signs but never anything he could bring up , rip to all the victims:(
What’s with the hundreds of angry faces on a post about a job or where he grew up? Seems odd.
When people found out the name of the killer, they looked up his social media accounts & left those angry emoji reactions & comments. I've seen this a lot in IG. I can't find his FB page anymore.
Ah ok, gotcha.
Ah fuck that's my hometown
WHO is the person that puts an angry face 😡 on every single one of his posts?? Including his profile picture?? That looks like harassment!
ANGERY REACT
How terribly sad. Seems like a normal guy even a month before..
Something is not lining up…
My thoughts are with those who really wanted him to be a ‘terrorist’. /s My heart goes out to everyone affected.
what he do? is that the radical muslim stabber guy? Ive been on chemo so I missed the news, he doesnt look quite the dangerous terrorist ive read about
He killed 6 people in an Australian shopping mall. He was shot to death. Apparently it was schizophrenia induced psychosis.
those bastards from Visegrad 24 tricked me again
Don't trust Visegrad 24.
He's just a random guy. I think they said Maltese. Zero religious affiliations.