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Dr. Keith Ablow on how the murders of two children shows what is lacking from the mental health care system in America.
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Welcome back to on the hunt at foxnews.com.
I don't want to bring in doctor keep apple -- now of the Fox News.
Medical -- team joining us by Skype as he often does on a Friday helped Kate great to see it.
Any good to see you -- I wanna get -- -- would you've had a fascinating piece that Lance Armstrong's fall from grace and I wanna get to that in a moment but.
First doubled this dreadful.
Dreadful story.
That unfolded yesterday evening here in New York City.
A mother comes home with a three year old child.
Walk sane and finds that the he now finds the nanny.
-- looking -- to the other two who -- two and six the nanny on the veranda with apparently self inflicted stab wounds to the neck.
And the two children stabbed to death.
In the -- of -- What on earth do we make of what I'm getting chills just -- talking about it what -- what how do we deal with its.
-- -- listen if you how do you deal with it if -- That parent.
You start by saying and be dealing with this for the rest in my life as will my child my surviving child.
Luckily there -- resource is for people who lost loved ones even through violence and people supporting each other can help but the first thing that a therapist.
Ought to be telling these folks is listen.
I can't fully empathize with what you're going through because I -- How gigantic it is and I know that the reason you feel that is because -- love these children so much.
There will be an answer by the way there's going to be as this criminal proceeding -- the psychiatric investigation of this nanny proceeds.
Will learn.
What signs and symptoms there may have been of any potential.
Psychiatric.
Illness that descended on her and that's an old story these things happening again and again and again when mental illness plays in the background.
Now we went something like this delta and do you I don't I guess she it's so hard to generalize anyway on something like this but is this.
Switch that gets flip -- someone's mind or is it -- -- or is it do you generally find there's been a gradual.
Sort of deterioration.
Generally authority and -- friends -- -- -- -- -- silence all the time on this defiant beasts well.
Very commonly there's been a gradual decline there's no switch that goes off.
And -- signs and symptoms were building over time.
Right that is and finally before we move on move on that would -- the parents.
And the -- and the three year old.
Yes -- I mean how how do you go along.
Here so you go -- Juan you honor the young lives that were lost.
You don't run from memories of them you embrace the memories of them.
You look toward the life of that three year old and say somehow some way something extraordinary could come.
From the airing this too much loss and will have to put ourselves in the hinted that possibility.
All right got very very hard.
Yeah -- it's unimaginable.
That the pain of those parents must be going through it -- just it's it's heartbreaking.
I'm a guy I want to move on though to this did you have a piece I did before I do -- -- just when I read let our viewers know you have a piece about this.
All -- case yet foxnews.com.
You also had a very interesting article.
A -- on some strong the you know it's a one time seven trying to -- -- from its.
Champion and that's stripped of those titles now having been at the -- of -- -- cycling authorities say was the wore us -- doping program.
They have ever come across probably in any sport.
You have an interesting take on things that may have been going on -- some -- mind.
Well -- -- those student don't know why.
You know because it also seemed unfathomable here.
How could somebody be content to pretend to be a champion eleven times and arrow.
And not -- so pained by that that you literally can't pull on your leggings and cycle anymore.
The -- have to be that he was running from something -- if you will he was -- away from something.
-- wanted things you know about Lance Armstrong -- he was abandoned by his father when he was two he'd never wanted to meet that man he has not met that man.
And he doesn't talk to step father.
So listen.
You -- -- -- help but he's not my patient but I would tell him.
The idea that you're racing.
Away your life and shaking your life.
As well.
Argues that you shouldn't go back to those unresolved issues.
That -- -- suggested to you you're not -- -- You're not a man look when you're doing yourself -- try to be superhuman you're trying to win every race why it's a huge data -- you.
He didn't want you -- -- left.
Read that and maybe you can do you really bored.
-- really interesting thank you doctor -- -- Duncan -- tableau thank you so much and again don't let me -- articles on the both of these issues we've talked about our foxnews.com.
-- he'd have a great weekend thank you very much indeed.
