Silence Broken: Mother of James Holmes speaks for first time

In a 10News exclusive interview, the mother of the Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes speaks of her experience and advocates for mental health awareness and how to recognize the signs.
Silence Broken: A Mother's Message

[@oceanmandy]

This took courage. My heart goes out to her

[@govindagovindaji4662]

Bless her. She did not fail. We as a society are failing. Mental illness is not new. Up until these last two decades or so, people made fun of people with mental illness. No one knew the seriousness of it. But we do now. No more failing. It is time to address it head on and also to get psychotic medication regimes that are not aggressively pursued as "the sure one" for "the individual" person out of the mix. And we need to call them people, not patients, even though it is a dis-order.

[@christinekelly8766]

heart braking. for all involved.

[@DFNUVS]

MAY YOU FIND SOME TYPE OF PEACE AND LIFE. THIS INTERVIEW SHOWS YOUR STRENGTH AND COURAGE TO SPEAK OUT FOR SOME HEALING. 🖤😥👌

[@MARIUS2776]

Stop shouting

[@marcbrss574]

The media fucking sucks, this is supposed to be about raising awareness and watching out for the signs of mental disorders and they call him a "madman, hellbent on slaughter" I don't disagree that what he did was super fucked and should never happen, but the point of this conversation, in my opinion, is to help notice the signs of someone who is struggling inside their own mind... Just seems like they're saying that anyone with mental health issues will wind up becoming something like this.. I don't normally comment on this sort of shit outside of my household or with close family or friends but this is kinda fucked up. Behavioral/mental disorders have a huge range.. Not everyone with similar issues will do something like this, but they still need help without people calling them degrading names. And again, not defending what this dude did, just don't want everyone with mental problems branded as a murderer. Thanks

[@barbaramendelsohn3355]

Well stated!

[@LucidDream]

Marc Bourassa According to most of the "signs" and his story growing up, he kinda reminds me of myself. Except I'm older than him, so I've lived it a little longer. Also a difference in that I don't have any delusions about harming other people. Maybe I hurt people emotionally sometimes with my attitude...but not physically. With my attitude because a lot of times I'm not in that great of a mood or I'm feeling irritated. Really my disinterest sometimes in talking to people, kinda hurts people who actually do care about me. But yeah, I rather refrain from confrontation. If I ever harm anyone physically, it's myself and myself only. Used to kinda take it out on myself. I'm actually a pretty nice guy most would say. Just kinda shy and reserved. Not super social. Better at writing. I have experience with other people with mental disorders, from being in a couple of programs myself. Definitely a wide range. I think mental health programs could use some work though. Each time I've been and tried to stay with it...I give up. At some point it just becomes too much for me. Too much analysis, too much talking about my problems...or most of the time even trying to describe it. I don't like routines much.

[@susie7336]

Her son told multiple people, medical professionals, that he wanted to kill people. What more did he have to do to get help to prevent this tragedy...? 😞

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

☮️❤️

[@Savagemode09]

Unfortunately they wanted a paycheck if he wasn't so severely gone they would had saved him they never cared until he snapped.

[@fadedgam3r]

rip all ppl involved u will be missed

[@rebelfrost8183]

Yea

[@rebd00mer93]

Thank you arlene

[@arzn253]

What happened to the sound at 4:13?

[@IveGotABulletproofHeart]

Mental health is very hushed..we need it to be more easiky treatable and not taboo

[@LoveGuruBlaire]

Oh Christ. I'm 1:00 in and they start talking about mental illness. I'm waiting for the day that this lady or her husband / someone in their family comes about about being FBI. It will happen.

[@barbaramendelsohn3355]

Mental illness is real. This was not a staged scenario!

[@lollyward]

Having 3 bipolar family members I can tell you for a fact it is NOT THAT EASY to get HELP! 1-They often don't want help because they don't think THEY have a problem... they think THEY'RE the only one SANE. 2 - You can tell everyone, but If their an adult, they won't TAKE them in just because YOU (and 5 other family friends) tell them (cops/paramedics/mental hospital) that they're crazier than a bed bug and running amok spending money, freaking out strangers, talking nonsense UNLESS THEY THINK they may harm their-self or someone else. No, they drive away. Then days later you finally find them at the police dept arrested for doing some crazy shit and thousands of dollars light and in a downward spin of depression. 3 - Very often they can straighten up and fool them when a cops or Doctors talk to them. They can be very sly when needed. Only people who know them can tell they're off they rails. Oooh I could tell you STORIES!! I hope we can find a way around this one day.

[@mailmail6533]

stop calling people names like.... mentally ill. what's wrong with you? who hurt you? tell me about your mother?

[@vincinogstar6130]

Mental illness does NOT make people go out do deranged shit millions of people suffer from mental illness, take illicit drugs ,prescribed drugs and never commit a crime in their life!! Aside from the drug use .. Start taking responsibility, society breads these monsters it's you fucking people pointing your fingers at everything and everyone saying they aren't good enough, he did it she did it's the parents fault, oh fuck off with that garbage !! ... listen to yourselves!! & guess what sometimes just sometimes people are born to be bad & that's a fact ! They can have the perfect life makes no difference they just don't want to be part of it .. this is nobody's fault , u can't fix what was never broken ! They came into this world angry they will be exiting angry ! Kids from columbine were clearly monsters created from society , or "school". This theatre monster was born a beast! He was a ticking time bomb from birth In my opinion. And others are brainwashed by religion & racism ! But go on pointing your finger at innocent people ... it's really doing wonders for you can't you see the results !?!? Fckn idiots!!

[@carissafisher7514]

@@vincinogstar6130 of course it does. You are crazy, if you think normal people go around killing people.

[@mailmail6533]

Holmes is not a monster, the psychologist and assessment team gang stalkers are. if it weren't for their activity in the first place it never would have happened.

[@bobmartin8377]

mail mail, this was not at all fake!

[@Me-rp6wh]

Money is the monster , bless you

[@Lulu-pi2qp]

Maybe something happened to him when he was 12-13?

[@jeremyfink7805]

This was an avoidable tragedy. Sure, maybe the parents could have done more earlier but it's hard for parents to figure what is true mental illness vs the challenges of adolescence when hormones and the brain change dramatically. So much can change in just several years. The truth is that when the child is an adult, authorities won't do anything unless the child does something bad, the parents are powerless. At that point, it can be too late. Many parents have been distraught that their mentally ill child is on the street, homeless, an addict, etc... and their child can't be forced to do anything unless it's been proven they are a danger. So many people knew that the adult Holmes wanted to kill people and yet did nothing. I can understand some of the reticence about incarcerating people for mental illness, it has been abused in the past and will certainly be abused in the future but red flag laws could provide an alternative where guns are kept from these crazy people. I don't see how sending the mentally ill like Holmes to life in prison is the best solution. He should be confined to a mental institution until he is determined to be safe for society. That may be never.

[@lHLDN2K]

To be fair to the parents they took him to counselling when he was a child

[@carissafisher7514]

We have to be able to talk.....cut....she wasn’t done.

[@jmpayne333]

I feel bad for everyone involved. Including James. You think anyone wants to be known as the craziest person alive ? Schizophrenia is a serious mental health problem. Sometimes they literally can’t control their own mind or are seeing and hearing things more real to them than reality. I have a cousin who has schizophrenia. She has an IQ higher than Einstein but just can’t figure out the life with a serious illness part of it. I don’t believe she’s a threat to anyone. Unfortunately that can change quick in someone whose brain is working against them. Not saying we shouldn’t lock James up forever we definitely should. Can’t have a semi safe society with people like him out there. When watching James interviews you can see there are times there’s no person actually in there.

[@honeyg9572]

We went to this theater alot but after this, not anymore. I have maybe been there 2? Even though the name changed and colors and was remodeled, you can't stop thinking of what happened when you go in there. I drove by the theater the night that it happened like I normally did after work every night, and there were no police, but just thinking that he was already in there when I drove by, sends chills down my spin. So sad

[@Smile-pq3nn]

Who is she?

[@MrMooremelody]

maybe watch the video. wth...

[@jralba4934]

I use to go to that theater

[@shawnsuave5694]

Maybe if women didn't shame men every single time they show any vulnerability, tenderness, weakness or need for assistance/help (but yet oh its totally cool for women to be as soft as as a feather) this stuff wouldn't happen as frequently. Mindless lines from women like "I've already got a vagina i don't need another one around" are contributing to this kind of stuff.

[@MARIUS2776]

What the hell are you talking about you absolute weapon

[@whiskeymarielandry9177]

You never know how a child will grown up. The start A child. Ends up being a drug dealer. The B,C,mostly D child Puts their self through collage. TO A MOM,FROM A MOM. sooooooo, Sooooooo SAD FOR YOUR LOST.

[@gary617]

Actually it is her fall.

[@loufournier5397]

She tried to get him help. It’s not like she turned a blind eye to it.

[@MARIUS2776]

She shouldn't have to take criticism from a person who cannot spell fault.

[@melissawalden3744]

watch your kids

[@fistfuckiclusterfuck6884]

Melissa Walden he was a 24 year old fully grown man

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

Yeah its definitely not all the doctors, medical professionaps, therapists, etc. fault who were in closer contact with him.than his parents at the time. not to mention his parents had told therapists etc about his problems and they did nothing.

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

maybe if doctors and law enforcement, people in general werent so impersonal and uncaring stuff like this wouldnt happen.

[@eiresaoirse9157]

programmed

[@Konverteraren]

Why did he have guns?

[@alicegutierrez376]

I haven't been following this story..so what happened with this guy?did he murdered someone and who

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

what about the father who is connected with Darpa

[@tristacurran9615]

she sounds like she's been drinking

[@loufournier5397]

You would be a basket case too if your kid did something as heinous as James Holmes did.

[@vababy45]

Dillon Roof, meet your TWIN.

[@leosalon1529]

At least he will get free food and shelter for the rest of his life 😀

[@MARIUS2776]

Pity, he should of got the death penalty

[@tigersteele9552]

HIS PARENTS SAW ALL THIS.....BUT, NEVER HAD HIM COMMITTED?? THEY COULD HAVE SAVED ALL THOSE VICTIMS THE PAIN OF THAT DAY!!! ITS ON THEM TOO!!!!

[@francesgutierrez9774]

at the very least, you should pay funeral costs for all your monsters victims. you created that demon, you raised and taught that demon. you ARE responsible for the atrocity you set on your community. NO SYMPATHY!

[@kawikalee2076]

how cruel and evil your words are....you should not crucified someone for another's doing. wow what has our society become

[@bobmartin8377]

Frances Gutierrez, parents don't teach their children to kill people! That was HIS choice, not HERS! You are happy that this happened so that you can troll people who are not RESPONSIBLE for their CHILDREN'S actions! YOU made this happen! YOU wanted it to happen! NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP SHILL!

[@marcioromao2832]

k pena

[@annachiarafantin9958]

Poveri genitori, sono persone umili e conviveranno con questo peso! 😞