We've got a very strange relationship of information that should be kept within the investigation, and the media. We know Drs notes exist...in torn up form, we know medications that came from the co-pilots apartment, we apparently know what is in private psychiatric records and we know what his ex-girlfriend remembers him saying.
Except for the notes and medications taken from the apartment much of this is many YEARS old
No crash investigation makes this stuff available in this sort of stream-of-discovery time-line. Something is weird.
Call me mentally disordered, but it's a French prosecutor who is releasing this information about the crash of an AIRBUS passenger jet. Airbus is a French Company. Is something strange????? Hey I'm just paranoid, you'll have to rely on some sane person media expert to question the character of this reporting.
However it has come to be, the information being fed into the media is following a post hoc proctor hoc sort of reasoning. Early on the assumption was a white guy with a possibly Jewish surname couldn't be a terrorist. SOoooo, a second assumption goes into play...'no sane person would crash a passenger jet'.
With the final result of the investigation in hand right at the start what is needed is to go back toward the beginning to find whatever can be found to substantiate the foregone conclusion. So we've got the ex-girlfriend telling about how the Lubitz had 'grandiose' ideations about doing something to change the system and be remembered. She didn't understand what that meant then...but NOW that the plane is crashed SHE UNDERSTANDS! He was going to commit mass murder-suicide....and we've got statements about treatment for depression and anxiety (years ago?) and now we've got he was SUICIDAL!!! (but perhaps 6 years ago or more).
And if the convoluted logic isn't bad...there is the leap to mythology that stigmatizes people with mental disorders
People never recover from a mental illness
no one treated for depression can be a safe pilot
having a depression medication in your bathroom drawer makes you dangerous
and then there is the dreadful reality revealed that pushes the mentally ill into shame and hiding
People think mental illness is always dangerous
An 80% unemployment rate among mentally ill gives them reason to fear sharing...probably justifies fear of sharing
but the world will think you immoral if not criminally negligent if you don't mention that years ago you had treatment. Look it's just better to be in denial and never seek treatment! Just like 60% of America's mentally ill...
If you say anything to a lover, friend, co-worker etc. it will come out years later and they will assume you were crazy all those years ago.
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