Insane - Who Are You To Judge? (Gripping Psychological Thriller)

Case Files - Trauma (Harry)

All of us have experienced trauma at some point in our lives. All of us have events in our past that have affected us, perhaps even changed us. Some traumatic events can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is a crippling illness, causing anxiety, the inability to distinguish between past and present and an increased chance of developed an antisocial personality disorder (specifically sociopathy). If untreated, chronic PTSD can lead its victims deep into denial and although violence is not a symptom, it can be a consequence.

Tormented by the memory of having his parents killed in the next room as a child, Harry was given extensive therapy to help treat his PTSD. And although it had a positive effect initially, it led him to bury his hatred and rage deep within himself. He thought that he could have a positive influence on society - he could do good. But when he sees Avery after so many years, the rage comes flooding back. He convinces himself that the only way he would ever get any peace, is if he gave her the justice the law wouldn't. This belief and mission led him to kill innocent people - as part of his scheme to take Avery down. He did the very thing he arrested other people for.

But Harry was sure that his reasons were different. His reasons were better. He had to kill them - to stop more from dying. Well, in the long run he hoped. Ultimately, because his desire for justice twisted his own morals, it made him believe that what Avery did was wrong - but what he did was necessary. His own issues prevented him from seeing the hypocrisy, from seeing the influence his past had had on his perception of morality.

John Bunting is one of the most prolific serial killers of Australia. He was sexually abused as a child - but he never spoke about it. He never worked through it. As time went on, he turned his anger towards homosexuals and paedophiles, believing they were scum and did not deserve to live. Believing he was serving society by killing them. Eventually, everyone he didn't like was a homosexual or paedophile. Eventually his criteria for 'scum'; expanded to anyone.