Batman Shooter Warned Friend To Stay Away From Him, 'I Am Bad News'
Aug. 27 2012, Published 7:00 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
New evidence has revealed the dark thoughts haunting Batman shooter James Holmes in the weeks before he opened fire on a movie theater full of people in July.
The suspected mass murderer wrote a text to a friend asking if she had heard of the condition, "dysphoric mania," and when she messaged him back asking if it was treatable, he replied "It was," and warned the fellow graduate student to stay away from him because "I am bad news," reported the New York Times.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the 24-year-old, who is accused of killing 12 and wounding 58 during a premiere showing of The Dark Knight Rises last month, has been in solitary confinement at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Detention Facility in Centennial, Colorado since the deadly attack.
The psychiatric condition that Holmes inquired about is a form of bipolar disorder and it combines the frenetic energy of mania with the agitation, dark thoughts and in some cases paranoid delusions of major depression.
Dr. Victor Reus, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, told the Times that dysphoric mania is not uncommon in patients with bipolar disorder, a vast majority of whom never turn to violence. But in severe cases, he said, patients can become highly agitated and caught up in paranoid delusions, reading meaning into trivial things, "something said on TV, something a passer-by might say, a bird flying by."