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The issue with the "Oh, he's just crazy" narrative is the complete lack of detail. It's like they're playing on the fact that keeping things vague will conjure up a mental image (schema) inside the public's mind of a hypothetical unhinged lunatic that doesn't match up with reality.
In the modern world there isn't a single mental illness that isn't cataloged into greater detail than you can imagine, entire books written on each disorder from multiple different angles. For example, if the "acute illness" were something like bipolar disorder, I can tell you right now that there's nothing within the disorder that would prompt a person to act in this way. It would 100% be religion. In fact there are very few mental illnesses that can lead to violence. By keeping things vague, the authorities can essentially protect their narrative from being demolished because the second the name of the diagnosis is released all the psychologists in the world can come out and say "Yeah, sorry, that mental illness doesn't lead to violence. That's all him."
In the modern world there isn't a single mental illness that isn't cataloged into greater detail than you can imagine, entire books written on each disorder from multiple different angles. For example, if the "acute illness" were something like bipolar disorder, I can tell you right now that there's nothing within the disorder that would prompt a person to act in this way. It would 100% be religion. In fact there are very few mental illnesses that can lead to violence. By keeping things vague, the authorities can essentially protect their narrative from being demolished because the second the name of the diagnosis is released all the psychologists in the world can come out and say "Yeah, sorry, that mental illness doesn't lead to violence. That's all him."