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Your job, would you answer yes to any of those questions? lets talk about that and more. im joined by cnn safety analyst and former faa safety inspector david sussi and dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to you both. >> good morning. >> sanjay i want to start with you. is it likely a person who is having mental distress would answer truthfully on a question questionnaire knowing they could lose their job? is. >> it would be highly suspicious that would be adequate to try to find somebody because of the r...

Depression has moved into a psychosis. i want to emphasize, these are very heavy-duty drugs. this is not a prozac or antidepressant. its used for people who have a serious mental illness. >> so what kinds of serious mental illnesses? what could fall under a category in which you have to get these sorts of injections? >> right. so these kinds of injections are us used for people with manic depression and schizophrenia. those are two of the big ones. and, again, what youre concerned about with a p...

Injections for that. what are those? >> youre talking about psychiatric drugs now used -- a psychosis is probably one of the worst things that can happen to you in the psychiatric realm. thats an actual disconnection with reality. and patients who are psychotic have delusions, they hear things and in the reverse they become extremely withdrawn. so those are very you know strong psychiatric medications certainly would not be allowable -- >> you should not be flying a plane if you were getting the...

>> cheap doesnt mean unsafe. but this and airasia. they had no authority to fly that route. thats unheard of. too much growth everybody wants to fly, in different parts of the world. carryeryiers are trying to accommodate them. >> ruth explain how someone has major mental issues for example, that could affect his or her eyesight. >> if someone has delusions, they are psychotic, their brain is not functioning the way most of our brains do i compare -- when i describe to the family members of some...

Potentially delusions that he couldnt see. he could have been in the cockpit hearing god tell him to crash the plane. its extremely hard to have sympathy for someone who murdered 150 people. but most individuals with psychosis or mental illness would never do something to harm others. >> they dont understand and theres -- >> there are times when theyre risky, and theyre high profile. and so we note that is a. but the vast majority of people who have schizophrenia or a psychotic delusional type o...

There in france. back to this investigation where were learning more about the mental state of this 27-year-old co-pilot. why did he do it? what was the motive and could anything have stopped him? joining me now is elizabeth cohen, a former ntsb board member and safety expert. welcome to both of you. again, it was a french newspaper that reports in 2010 this co-pilot received anti-psychotic injections. elizabeth, what are anti-psychotic injections? >> well, they are injections in and the same ...

They killed after their own minds turned on them. and their murders took on dimensions that were not only shocking, they were unimaginable. >> my name is howard franklin street jr. im 38 years old. ive been down since 1993 for shooting my mom. >> during our first day of shooting at wabash, our "lockup" crew met frank street, an inmate housed in the prisons residential treatment unit. at the time of the interview, street was experiencing involuntary tremors due to his medication. >> i started hav...

About him. if you can call it that. was not under some sort of delusions of what he was doing. >> the defense argued its the other way, its proof how out of touch he is after doing something so horrible to someone he knew cared about him, he did something routine. showing he didnt have that the upset of emotion that killers often have. then the chase. they watched this chase and the prosecution was very strong on this. because they said and as we heard in the sum up put in a very indelicate way ...

It could have been through the black market or the so-called private sale loophole. private sellers dont have to do background checks. our partners have this report on how easy it can be to buy a firearm no matter what your history is. >> my name is samantha and i go by sammy. i am 27 years old. i have bipolar type one disorder and social anxiety disorder. bipolar one has true mania which is the mania where the person can lose touch with reality. this video is going to be talking about stuff i d...

By the time of the murders, hed been hospitalized more than a dozen times, suffering from psychosis and delusions. and during the trial, he dressed in a cowboy costume and acted as his own attorney, believe it or not. and in his defense tried to subpoena jesus and subpoena the pope and then for good measure, john f. kennedy as witnesses. he mailed these incredibly bizarre drawings to his family. in fact, he drew over just about every court document he could get his hands on. joining me is jeffre...