I Am Adam Lanzas Mother Post Sparks Intense Online Discussion

Liza Long has a profound situation on her hands. Her 13-year-old son scares her. She says he has serious mental health problems, and she writes about her struggle and its larger implications in an essay that has gripped the Internet with its frank discussion of coping with mental health issues in children.

In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, on blogs and social media, we're debating violence, gun control and mental health issues. We're searching for reasons why something like this could possibly happen. In her post, Liza writes that its easy to talk about guns. But she thinks its time to talk about mental illness.

In her moving essay, she writes in detail about her own son's illn…
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