Crazy, not Insane

Crazy, not Insane helped bring a lot of insight as to why people are aggressive in general. The thing that caught my attention was how each serial killer in the documentary has had some sort of head trauma. Of course, there is more that goes into making a serial killer. A lot of them grew up in abusive households, they've been molested by people who were supposed to protect them, and overall grew up in a bad environment. These things don't entirely dictate a serial killer but these are recurring things in a lot of serial killers' childhoods. As stated earlier, the thing that caught my attention was head trauma has a lot to do with a person's behavior specifically when they're adults. I've seen this a lot from football players who suffer from CTE. People like Richard Sherman, Aaron Hernandez, Antonio Brown, the list goes on and on but they are people who weren't aggressive coming into the league. They were really nice people but as their careers progressed, their characters started to change. For those who don't know, Aaron Hernandez was an ex-NFL superstar who was involved in at least 4 homicides but was only convicted for 1. The reason was that he ended up committing suicide in his cell so they couldn't convict him of the other 3 victims. He's the only known NFL player who has actually killed someone and Henry Ruggs but some can argue that he didn't willingly kill someone. The majority of NFL stars get domestic abuse charges and battery charges. 

Other than the NFL connection, I found it interesting how psychology was looked down upon during the 20th century. A thing I noticed was that the correlation of a person's sexual desires/fantasies was thought by doctors to be one of the main reasons why serial killers did what they did. Dr. Lewis showed a lot of proof of how various serial killers she worked with suffered from mental health disorders and they disqualified her work and didn't want to believe that she was right.