lizzie
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Exactly. It's about a lack of control. And it's about being disconnected from others. People need to feel like they are connected in someway to those around them. If they feel belittled, unappreciated or unimportant, or worse still - bullied, they usually lash out. Sometimes suicide is so terrifying to some that they have to kill others first in order to push themselves over the edge. It's selfish and horrible, but isolation does that to people.
I don't think it is selfish in reality. Desperate? Yeah. As for isolation doing that to people, it does if they don't have a well-developed sense of self, which is unreliant on the opinions and support of others, but this doesn't usually happen until later in life. With a kid, and with a portion of adults, I think that is completely true.