Psychologist Hubert Van Gijseghem — who it should be noted had never met
nor treated Couture-Rouleau — told the Journal de Montréal that the
kinds of changes that he had apparently undergone could fall within the
“register” of paranoid schizophrenia, which in males most often reveals itself
in late teens to early 20s. Schizophrenia is a brain disease that affects an estimated
300,000 Canadians and its symptoms are often associated with religious fervour,
with one study indicating that one-quarter of people hospitalized with the
illness report religious delusions.
So was Couture-Rouleau “radicalized,” as the RCMP reported, or was he
manifesting the signs of someone suffering from mental illness, one that would
eventually lead to a psychotic break?
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