May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the day before the tragedy in Texas Kimberly Hunt spoke exclusively with Arlene Holmes, whose son James killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a movie theater in Aurora Colorado almost 10 years ago.
— This week our nation is again stricken with the grief and anguish of another mass shooting. Precious children taken at the hands of a gunman armed for combat and intent on taking lives.May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the day before the tragedy in Texas I spoke exclusively with Arlene Holmes, whose son James killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a movie theater in Aurora Colorado almost 10 years ago.
Arlene, the mother of James Holmes, says not a day goes by that she doesn't think about the effects of her son's horrible actions. The innocent lives taken, families destroyed, others left medically and psychologically damaged, and she feels she had an obligation to become knowledgeable about mental health awareness and share that knowledge with other people.
“I mean, my son was getting good grades, going to school every day. So, I was kind of using the wrong metrics. And I needed to look more in the big picture. Of what else was going on. He was isolating," Holmes said. “My son wrote it all out in notebook. So, because someone isn't talking to you, that doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't a lot going on inside.”
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