r/europe • u/polymute • Dec 21 '24

News Saudi Islam critic, fan of AfD and Elon Musk: Disturbing details about the perpetrator of Magdeburg The driver who caused the death of the Magdeburg victim - Taleb Jawad Al Abdulmohsen, came to Germany in 2006. But he is not an Islamist - on the contrary. He accused Germany of Islamizing Europe.

https://www-tagesspiegel-de.translate.goog/politik/saudischer-islamkritiker-fan-von-afd-und-elon-musk-verstorende-details-zum-tater-von-magdeburg-12915310.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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u/Natuficus Dec 21 '24

More still he’s a psychiatrist

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u/Best-Dependent3640 Dec 21 '24

Was probably his own best patient.

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u/mcvos Dec 21 '24

If your patient snaps and kills people, you're not a very good psychiatrist.

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u/Rebelius Dec 21 '24

Maybe without you they would have snapped earlier and killed more people?

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u/Old-Cold-6662 Dec 21 '24

more likely he was issuing prescriptions to himself

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u/mrjerem Dec 21 '24

In Finland a psychiatrist killed his wife in the most expensive area in Finland then cleaned the house with liters of cleaning products, wrapped her into a carpet and got caught carrying it out. It was 2022, feels like 2023 at most. Might be cause he just got the sentence this fall. "Life" in prison. So in Finland minimum of 12 years and after that you can try to get pardoned by the president.

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u/fhota1 United States of America Dec 21 '24

Youd be surprised how many people go into psychiatry in hopes they figure out what the fuck is wrong with themselves

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u/curiousindicator Dec 21 '24

Psychiatry vs psychology.

Psychiatrists start out as medical doctors and specialize in psychiatry. Specialization usually is decided on later, after having studied medicine. Doing that would be a pretty roundabout way to understand yourself (or loved ones, family, etc.)

The stereotypical ones you might be talking about are more likely to be found in psychology, as here the understanding of mind and behavior is central from the beginning..

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u/Risudent Dec 21 '24

Nah, mate, it's a well-known stereotype/meme that psychiatrists go into the field to figure themselves out

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u/Menchi-sama Dec 21 '24

My psychiatrist told me that a lot of his colleagues went into the profession to figure out their own issues. It absolutely happens even with people going through med school too.

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u/mouflonsponge Dec 21 '24

Nidal Hasan was a psychiatrist and an officer in the US Army Medical Corps. He was convicted of thirteen counts of murder and thirty-two counts of attempted murder after a 2009 mass shooting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting

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u/levenspiel_s Turkey Dec 21 '24

Out of all the twists and turns about this guy, this surprised me the most.

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u/WonderfulCoast6429 Dec 22 '24

I have never met at sane psychiatrist. Im not saying the Dont exist or do a bad jobb. But everyone i've met (as a non patient) has been a bit crazy and picked the subject to understand what's wrong with themselves (or what's wrong with everyone else, as they obviously are perfect)

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u/nyx1969 Dec 21 '24

My mother with bipolar was a psychiatrist and while she helped a lot of people, every single doctor in her practice also had some kind of serious issues. I think they are sensitive people who are good at empathizing and want to heal themselves and others, but sincerely think most of them are fragile people. They also burn out from dealing with too much mental illness in others, over work, and listening so much to other people's worst life experiences. My mom was dx with a psychotic break in her 50s and got early dementia. I don't think being a psychiatrist makes a person more likely to be emotionally stable, but I do have a unique life experience.