On August 27, 2025, 23 -year -old Robin went to the Announcement Catholic School in Westman Miniapolis and set fire. Two children were killed; Fifteen others were injured. And the world, yet, asked the same old question: But why?

The answer, this time, is clearly clear.

Officials revealed that Westman had long expressed violent views and expressed deep upset fantasies about harming children. According to him, he embodied the previous school shooters and carefully planned his attack, even conducted testing around the school.

It seems demonic. But here is a difficult truth: it did not come from anywhere. This was the result of a festive mental health crisis that no one paid attention or chose.

Why passion is not evil, it is problematic

It is not a shooting per shooting, but is something especially disturbing about a young adult that is not only doing a task of violence, but also methodical (almost ritualically) with the idea of ​​killing children. This is not just a crime then; It becomes a symptom. What? A society that stops seeing that its youth start rotting from inside.

We cry for help wearing clothes as darker humor, we often normalize isolation, eliminate the ambition of cold, and labeled vulnerability as weakness. When a child (or young adult) imagines other children to harm other children, it is not just a family, a school or a system failure, but the collapse of collective sympathy.

We should most bother the most that Westman did not work on passion. This is that he had space to nourish it, uncontrolled, unwanted, undivided. That level of darkness is not formed in a vacuum, and it is what is worthy of our attention.

It is silence, neglect, algorithm-fantasy imagination and a community that shows another way to promote such aggression in children and young adults. If it looks like a passion in adolescence, it is probably time that we stopped behaving teen mental health as a soft issue. Because when the emotional decay of a child kills others, it is not just sad. This is criminal decency.

Indian reference: sad youth

Sample of these numbers below:

• According to a national survey of IC3 and CISCE in 2025, 1 in 5 Indian students say they rarely feel calm or motivated. About 75% of the 12th grader sleeps less than 7 hours at night.

• A Delhi study found that 40.3% of teenagers were working with diagnostic levels of depression.
• In 30 universities surveyed by Niman, 33.6% showed symptoms of severe depression, while more than 12% considered suicide.

We can quote numbers throughout the day, but behind each one is a story of sitting in silence at the age of 16 years at the age of 16, or to distract the reels with nervousness at 2 pm at the age of 19. The school is trying to do “normal acting”, even feels like a battle area inside their heads!

Ugly stigma game

Mental health for teenagers or even young adults in India is often treated as a passing mood, a “phase,” or worse, a character defect. Damage that causes it? Inconsistent.

The 2020 review in BMC Psychiatry found that only 7.3% of Indian youth with mental health issues demanded reports or help at any time, even if about 1 in 5 struggle with important symptoms. Why is that the case? Shame, ignorance, and cruel lies that “strong” people do not feel weak.

Nobody is noticed the reasons for this. While parents often do not know what to see, schools are very overwhelmed or undertrented. peers? They are trapped in the same spiral of anxiety, educational pressure, digital distraction and identity confusion.

“It is really true that adolescence is an ideal storm,” a child psychiatrist and former Professor of Niman. Shekhar Kapoor says. “From hormonal changes, internet exposure, unrealistic expectations, and very little emotional scaffolding for global concern through social media are happening in this ripe era.”

One of the major psychiatrists of India, Dr. Krisamurthy has over the years that the mental health system is thwarting its youngest citizens.

Krishnamurti’s district mental health program was one of some stages of that direction, yet its reach remains.

Why is “passion” fatal?

Robin Westman did not wake up one morning and decided to become a killer. He spent months in spilling in that dark place. And that spiral, partially untreated mental illness, digital rabbit holes, isolation, and fuel from fixed thinking can occur anywhere.

Even in India.

In fact, passion often plays more quietly. It turns inward-in the loss of loss, food disorder, excessive perfection, or return from life. But this is no less dangerous. We often wait until a child fails, breaks down, or dies before reacting.

Former Psychiatry Head at Maulana Azad Medical College, Dr. RC Kapoor argues: “Our failure is waiting for a breakdown before performing one task. Mental health needs urgency similar to heart disease or cancer. Because in many cases, it kills only one.”

What can be done? Dr. Kapoor kept it down for five points.

1. Make mental health education mandatory in schools:
Introduce age-appointed mental health discussions from class 5. He advises schools to make the emotional literacy part of the course.

2. Consultation,
Each school should train mental health professionals not only for academic stress, but also to help students deal with external stresses.

3. Parents’ awareness should be encouraged:
Workshops that teach parents to recognize early warnings signs are very important in all institutions. Parents should be taught that a dull child is not always just a “moody teen”.

4. D-Calcular Therapy:
It is an essential to normalize interaction around mental health in media, pop culture and even community places. Doctors should be encouraged to show what treatment looks.

5. Policy push is an additional bonus:
India’s Mental Health Services Act (2017) was progressive, but the implementation is weak. We need both state and private investment in adolescent mental welfare services.

Some states are trying. Kerala’s biological program is already showing positive results by placing trained psychologists in colleges. The central government has a promise of tele-death helpline, but only when more people know that it is present.

Shooting of Miniapolis at Catholic School is a tight warning against uncontrolled teen passion, loneliness and suffering. In India, the crisis looks different, but it is here. And until we shift to silence to support, the passion will continue to turn into something disastrous, either against others or against ourselves.