Mr Ilyaar Case Study

While reading the case study about Mr. Ilyaar, I did not get a sense that he had a mental disorder. According to the DSM-5 a mental disorder is “is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. An expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one, is not a mental disorder. Socially deviant behavior (e.g., political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that

Ilyaar act of violence was based off of his desire to gain the attention of society. Mr. Ilyaar expressed that he wanted to send a message that will result in peace for the world. Mr.Ilyaar was very much aware of his plan of action, and was not compelled by another source to follow through with his actions, such as a voice telling him to do this act. Some will state that no one in their “right mind” can conduct such an act of violence leaving people hurt and deceased, but I would disagree. While reading the case study it appeared to me that Mr. Ilyaar did not seem regretful about his act or regretful that he hurt multiple people, which was concerning to me, but I kept reminding myself that he was trying to prove a point to society. This does not make his act just, but it does shed light on why he made a conscious decision to blow up a art

Ilyaar talks about “how most of the world suffers from the oppression of privileged groups and how there will never be true equality and humanism as long as we live in the current state of affairs. Therefore, he sees his act as sending a message that will ultimately usher in a peaceful world as it was meant to be.” Cognitively I feel that he was mentally stable, as he was selective as to where he wanted to commit this act. He speaks of privileged, so my assumption would be that he chose the art gallery over the other places, as the gallery would have more people that are privilege than the bank, liquor store, or Jewish