Ok I think I saw him flip us off lololol bottom right Never mind I made my screen bigger and saw the pic lol BUT WAtch HIS HAND H E FLIPPED YOU OFF NOT ME LOL
As sad as it is for him to have undergone so much trouble post the accident due to an undiagnosed brain injury, why are we not sympathising enough with the poor woman Cathy. She was a gem and dedicated her life to kindness. She did not deserve to meet such a terrible fate!
Poor Cathy and the cat 😢 A lot of serial killer that I have watched on YT or Netflix has a background of head injury during their early years. That's so sad for Johnny that it wasn't treated.
I wondered if they studied presence of head injury in development of the dark triad theory ? That's interesting. I watched similar things on serial killers and did not notice that.
He gets a year in prison for breaking into someone's house and assaulting them... But they drop it to 6 weeks because the prison is overcrowded 😂😂😂 what kind of broken ass legal system is that
Too many murders have been perpetrated by people who were supposed to be in prison but instead were let back on the streets. Nonviolent offenders should be the only prisoners afforded any leeway. Justice System seems intent on letting the most psychotic prisoners out.
Well this video was posted this year, way after the crime and way after SOA came out. Katy Perry is still relevant so it makes sense to choose this video title. Heck it got me to click on it.
My husband got a brain injury from a bicycle accident. The thing they don’t tell you about head injuries is that the person you knew is never coming back. Recovery is not what you think it is. The person may relearn how to do things, but they will have a different personality, a different sense of humor, and even different memories of their life with you. If you’re lucky, they won’t be violent. But it’s like suddenly you have this roommate that everybody else thinks is the same person as before, but he’s so different that you might not even want to call him by his old name. And you’re supposed to pretend that this is the same guy as before. It’s like science fiction.
What a sad story. I'm a nurse of 18 years. I have an ex that i suspected had narcissistic personality disorder. We had been broke up for years, and he was in the shower at his home one day and his feet slid out from under him and he was knocked out for a few minutes. He refused to ever go get checked out. After that his behaviors became bizarre, he was absolutely disillusional and he ended up stalking me, breaking into my house and assulting my adult son. Hes in prison now for 6 years. As much as i cant stand him i know he has a head injury that exacerbated his mental health issues. He was in his early 30s, on a fast track with his career, making great money, bought his own house...and lost everything.
Sorry to hear about your struggles, its good you moved on with your life though, just keep pushing forward and hopefully your ex gets some proper treatment.
Science still knows very little about the brain. Doctors aren't magicians mate. What was he going diagnose him with? The mri scan didn't show any physical damage to the brain. Maybe if he stayed on his meds the second doctor prescribed, it would've helped. Short of a Judge slapping Johnny with a conservatorship, what else can be done? Johnny just sounds like an asshole.
@@MrAkaacer There WAS no MRI scan, and light sensitivity is a dead giveaway to a head injury. Couple that with the odd behavior and you’ve got such an obvious head injury someone who’s NOT a doctor would know it immediately.
A friend of mine was hit in the head with a brick during a mugging. He was in a coma for about a week and came around with a.different personality. The sweetest,.kindest guy was suddenly aggressive, angry and rude. It took months for his previous personality to re-emerge. When you look at the worst killers you often find traumatic head injuries in their past. Never underestimate a head injury.
he's lucky to have a friend like you who stuck around through his dark times instead of just abandoning him. wish everyone could have loyal friends like that, myself included. glad he recovered from such a heinous crime, even if partially.
Ay, my daughter is very young and is dating someone who has a TBI and I don't know him and worry about her because of how common TBI's and violence have been linked.
@@canterburytail2294 Have you told her about your worries. Maybe show her this video or something else to scare her away from him. Better to scare her than to for something to actually happen. I hope she is ok. Sometimes parents over worry so that may be the case also. I am a worry wort so no judgement.
We also have to make sure not to sensationalize head injuries as well. Not everyone that has a head injury will be a serial killer or even a bad person in general. My sister had a pretty bad head injury and she’s largely the same now. Just a few small changes.
@@canterburytail2294 don’t worry about that. I think she should be cautious, but no more cautious than around anyone else. My sister had a brain injury and she’s largely the same person. And not violent at all.
My sister currently has a brain injury from a car accident a few months ago. It really changed her personality and she’s still trying to figure out how to live again. It’s really scary and I can totally see how a brain injury could cause this.
I experienced a TBI from a horrible accident. I had my seatbelt on; and, the airbag deployed. But, my seat came unbolted from the floorboard. I broke my ocular bones, nose, and 4 places on the top of my skull and forehead. It took years & competent counselors; and, I am able to be me again. 🎉
I got something out of todays episode. I need to figure out how to help my wife, shes not the same, and she's had recent head injuries. I feel beyond bad for not putting it together sooner. Thank you for this. I miss her and she needs help. I feel so awful.
I have been dealing with the same with my teenage daughter for the past 3 years. It’s impossible to get help through insurance. Try looking into Prodrome Glia and exercise with oxygen therapy.
The strangest thing is that he left sons of anarchy because it was too violent but then became so violent in his personal life. Very scary that a brain injury can cause this.
Or if he did have schizophrenia, they usually have triggers that worsen their auditory/visual hallucinations - if he had angry voices yelling at him all the time in his head he probably wouldn't have enjoyed being around more anger, externally. One of my best friends hates clowns because one manifestation of her schizophrenia (the one that apparently bothers her the most) is a big face with exaggerated features that laughs at her at inappropriate times.
Read what happens to the singer of INXS. He had a head injury and lost his sense of smell. He was never the same after that. A blow to the brain can change a person so much. It’s crazy.
@cappiece3786 exactly what I was thinking. The show was about a violent motorcycle gang. It was a motorcycle accident that somehow triggered his personality change. Coincidence?
The drastic change in his personality right after the bike accident is evidence enough for me to lean towards traumatic brain injury. It’s too much of a coincidence for it to not be.
I know right? Even Katy Perry said in an interview about him just after the whole ordeal. She said she couldn't put a finger on him and his mood swings. It was like one minute he was hot n then cold yes n then no in n then out up n then down....
It’s interesting to hear this story so compassionately told. I heard about this crime years ago as him being a meth head and sadist and it struck me that this all just seemed incongruent with his previous life. Makes a lot more sense that he had a head injury, thank you for getting a fuller picture out there, this must be a comfort to his loved ones to be able to let the public know he wasn’t just a demon.
He was sacrificed…demon possesion…he wanted out of Hollywood and got punished…to bad no one recognized this and prayed for him…demonic possesion without knowlege of how it works takes over the person…so sad 😢
Yeah that's the way it was reported for a while, they even accused him of being on 25i-nBome at the time of the murder but never once did he have drugs in his system when examined. He was even put into a court ordered rehab or detox thing because they assumed his behavior was drug related. I went years believing he was just extremely mentally ill and combined that with severe drug abuse.
@deadzeppelin9565 you may not have been wrong believing he was mentally ill and struggling with drug abuse. there was never definitive proof that he had a TBI. his behavior was similar to psychosis. traumatic brain injuries can, indeed, make a person aggressive or violent. psychosis, either from mental illness or drug induced, explains his behaviors: hearing a voice that wasn't there, pacing back and forth, his superhuman strength, his ability to jump the gate, then hop over the wooden fence. meth can trigger schizophrenia. although, there IS a link between TBI's and psychosis so....
He might have actually had a demon, I’ve seen it before, it looks like mental illness or drug induced psychosis, but the superhuman strength and no expression indicates to me that he just wasn’t in there during that time frame.
The sheer resilience of someone experiencing a psychotic break terrifies me,they can can so much damage and still act completely unphased not to mention their sheer strength as well
My whole life I've always known my uncle as an erratic, impulsive, and angry man easily prone to violence and making bad choices that landed him in prison. My mom told me he wasn't always like that he was a very different person before I was born, she said he was smart, kind, compassionate. Then he was t boned by a drunk driver, he survived but sustained a serious brain injury after that he was never the same. Even after he died of liver disease my heartbroken mother said "we finally put your uncle to rest, I wish you got to meet my real little brother but he died all those years ago in that car crash"
I sm so sorry. My cousin had a head injury and he totally changed at the end of his life. He became violent and tried to murder my brother. He was murdered. His craziness caused it.
Johnny Lewis was also on an episode of criminal minds. As someone who has met several psychologically disturbed individuals, I can tell you his performance in that show is chilling, he seemed to resonate deeply with his character. It is likely he kept his mental health under control up until the accident. Brain injuries make certain health issues much harder to hide or control. Personalities change with trauma or anaesthesia as it is. For a professional to take issue with violence while filming SOA - knowing the show, it probably brought forth personal issues he did not expect & up until the accident could control. While I adored him in his career, I regret to have to observed the evil he tried to keep from getting out. We don't always win that battle.
I have a traumatic brain injury from a car accident. It changed my entire life. Scholarship was gone, career was gone, wife left me. I spent years in chaos. It took me getting real help and settling down to focus on family to even begin to turn it around. It makes me sad that Johnny was unable to get the help he needed earlier. Thank you for approaching this subject so carefully, MrBallen.
@@sigsantacruz Thanks for your answer, as im still pretty young this is bad news for me. I´m looking for a doc that might help me one day, but so far the search is devastating. I wish you all the best for the future. regards R.
Dan is a real one for saving that random worker guy. Easily could’ve just called the cops and not gotten involved, but he stepped in and helped the dude get away.
@@user-ct1md9lw9d I don't think he's making up excuses. At least in my eyes, what Johnny did was horrifying. I think he sustained a brain injury in that accident and who he was changed. Look into frontal cortex injuries -- though I've not heard of one to cause this extreme of behavior shift that quickly, it has to be more than that, I'd think. And then when he went to the one Doctor, they didn't handle it correctly, and because Johnny was an adult, there wasn't a lot anyone could do to force him back to the Doctors. Whole thing is a series of unfortunate events. It's sad Cathy paid with her life for it, because who Johnny was died the day of the accident.
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his parents did too. they should’ve dragged him to the hospital and told the doctors what what going on themselves. i live with someone with a brain injury, you cannot just expect them to tell the drs everything that is going on
@@mkv2718 I still think he had undiagnosed psychological issues. The head injury accentuated this. There were things going on with him prior to that bike ride that were not addressed.
Sounds right to me. Obviously wasn't normal behavior so poor guy must have had bad brain damage. Maybe even something that wasn't found ,or just plain crazy.
I had a TBI when i was 16 i put my body between me and a girl sitting on the center consel and I went through the windshield of a jeep. I can definitely attest to the violent outbursts and dramatic change in personality at times these days it doesnt happen as often but sometimes the littlest things will trigger me to become violently angry ive had to learn to control it because i wasnt going back to prison for a 4th time the previous 3 definitely did nothing to help my condition other than give me a place where i didnt get in as much trouble for beating people, quite literally half to death but hey ive been managing to cope alot better these last 8 years I've been free.
@@ItsMeTyScott im sorry to hear about that,what a shame and broken system,😣 I really wish you the best and I'm happy your able to control it for the most part 🤍
And him to be fair, that wasn't him, it had to be something like the head injury, God love all involved, poor guy obviously had something bad going on, they all deserved a different outcome,...its all very sad..if my child went trough something like that I wouldn't be letting him go off to live else where, id want him close to keep an eye on the situation, its a bit of a fail on his parents part, I know they never could have known but they did know that was very out of caricature for there son...
Honestly Head injuries are probably one of the most terrifying things- You can hit your head (like in a car accident) and your personality can completely SHIFT.
I’ve seen this happen with 4 of my closest friends one of which had a very promising career in welding, which was his favorite thing to do; even after work he’d be welding up some art or some project he wanted to do. After his head injury he decided he never wanted to weld again and now works on a charter fishing boat and hasn’t touched a welder sense, he also lost his drive to excel in life, now he just doesn’t care and rides life like a wave instead of trying to surf life which is how he lived life before! Always wear a helmet when head injuries are a factor it could save your life or your life from changing forever!!!
As a former medical professional (now retired,) I believe he had a head injury that should have been researched better before starting him on psych meds! I had a wife call once when I was advice RN, she told me about a fall her spouse had from slipping on ice. He'd been seen but brain injury was ruled out, doctors didn't feel concerned that despite several weeks passing, he was still having headaches and other mentality changes. I told her to take him to the emergency room in the bigger city, Portland, OR, about an hours drive away. It turns out that my hubby worked with this guy, and he did have a head injury, a significant one that could have ended very badly!
@@afterthestorm7012 did you hear the same thing I did. The dad kept urging his son to go to a doctor that would look into the head injury. He didn’t just “throw pills at it”.
Mr Ballen: a woman AND HER CAT needlessly died. As if there weren’t any more reasons to love Mr. Ballen, he makes sure to mention the cat and the importance of his/her death as well. Poor woman and kitty 😿
Cathy made me on the verge or tears and then i heard about the cat and i was devastated. Neither of them deserved to go through such a terrible fate just because of one motorcycle accident.
100%…it’s terrifying to discover that, for better or worse; you’re a different person. You lose your identity and become terrified of your own capabilities
After 6 diagnosed concussions over 8 years of football and dozens and dozens of un diagnosed bell ringings that I just pretended like I was ok so I didn’t miss time playing I can tell you for certain I am a completely different person after every single head trauma event. I’m still fucked up and will be for the rest of my life. I’m 27 now I stopped playing football at 19…
Frontal lobe head injuries are now one of the leading hypothesis for serial killers. All of the major ones have a confirmed and unconfirmed head injuries.
I knew that Fred West had a brain injury (from an accident in his youth if I recall) - I wasn't aware of any confirmed or unconfirmed head injuries for any of the other major sk's that spring to mind.
Definitely an extremely exacerbating factor. Also, I've never heard of a naturally aggressive/antisocial person becoming more peaceful after a frontal lobe injury. It always seems to go the other way. I wonder if there's also a heritability to these kinds of personality changing head injuries, too. When we hear about killers and people, who have been violent from an early age (or, indeed, children who are violent and/or killers), we usually find that they've come from violent and disfunctional backgrounds. So, we have been putting the manifestations squarely at the feet or learned behavior and/or a bit of genetics. What if violent parents, generation by generation, smacking their children around is actually procuring character changing head injuries that in turn lead to the children being more violent and abusing their own children? Mostly, we raise our children to avoid drugs. We try. We rarely put any effort into raising them to avoid activities that could cause physical brain damage. In some parts of the UK - it's almost seen as a mark of parental love to give the boys mini motorbikes. Get them out banging their heads up as soon as possible.
@@batintheattic7293 I don't think so, people have been getting genital mutilated for thousands of years and yet every baby boy is still born with a foreskin and every girl is born with intact labia. there could be epigenetic changes that get passed down but likely those would be changes related to healing brain injuries which would make them less likely to get sever brain damage that won't heal. One thing that could very much get passed down is hormone levels, neurotransmitter levels, and variations in brain structure. now none of that really discounts your theory, but what does discount your theory at least to me, is that domestic violence, pedophilia, murder, serial murder, rape, and most other violent offenses are usually committed by someone who had violence or abuse done towards them in their child hood, but the important part is that this correlation is only seen in men, and women who commit violent or abusive crimes have no more or less chance than any other woman to have been abused or hurt in the past. If it was something getting passed on generation to generation why would it only ever have an effect on men when women commit almost as many violent or abusive crimes the only exception being murder. also if you look at it from an evolutionary perspective passing on chronic injuries to your children is the stupidest possible thing imaginable, sure it could be able to happen a little bit but those people who have the ability to pass on physical trauma to their children would be very quickly weeded out of the gene pool as that family would slowly degenerate over time.
This reminded me of Chris Benoit's case, it's somewhat similar with the head injury thing. Never underestimate the effects of having your head hit or accidentally hitting yourself on the head no matter how minor it may seem.
The part Jonny played last in Hollywood was the igniting factor and then the motorcycle accident triggered everything up, he was already trying to disassociate himself from the act before he went back to his parents in order to isolate and in the process he had the accident. It's not much of the accident but the triggering bullet was the last part he played in Hollywood, He knew i,t the ghost of the act was overwhelming him that's why he decided to quit playing in the movie, the money doesn't matter he was all the while trying to disassociate himself from the act. He couldn't differenciate anymore from fact and fiction. It happens to Arnold Schwarzenegger too sometimes but excercise helps him to cope, anytime you make a block buster film, be prepared for this kind of episodes in life.
Yeah, Joe Rogan has had some guests on that had a head injury that ended up completely changing their personalities. Such as Rosanne. We're all just a compilation of a bunch of chemicals.
@@az9498 Well, not really, we're by no means a "chemical soup" as they say. Have to remember, our entire body was assembled from raw material via the intelligence of a single cell, and a single cell is like a city inside We're a bunch of highly organized material, and tragically you can never truly know the entirety of yourself.
I remember my mother crying when this happened. The woman he killed was her landlord and the first friend she made when she moved to LA about forty years ago 😟
Only just came across your channel and been binging through most of the back catalogue. This one chills me, several members of my family suffered dementia and the whole experience of watching them slowly become nothing but a shell has left me with the fear of one day loosing my mind. The thought a mental health condition or injury can lead to something similar is one of my biggest fears. I've always said that I never want to see a ghost, not because I am afraid of ghosts but if I did see one I would know I have lost my mind
My daughter has TBI from a trampoline fall. Doctors refused to do any imaging at the ED and no one listen that she was "different" after this for three years. Finally I found a doctor that took my concerns seriously and tested her. November 2019, she got a tbi diagnosis. Advocate for yourselves and your loved ones!
Yes u have to unfortunately we are human in healthcare and are usually understaffed...however any fall with the slightest chance of head trauma HAS to get a CT scan to rule out a cranial bleed or hematoma it's just a given however not all professionals are professional or may be focused on less important factors...
Always do what you think is right. If you feel a doctor is not doing what they should, insist or get another opinion. Always fight for your loved ones!
This past 1.5 years have proven to me that just because someone has a medical degree doesn't make them intelligent. Too many stupid drs in the world so you have to persevere until you get an intelligent one.
My father was the sweetest and kind person, or so my mother, family and people around us said (I wasn't born yet during this period 😅). One day he got hit and run when he was just standing by the sidewalk, hence where he got his head injury and he never the same person again. He was a mess bipolar, his mood swings is so severed that once he killed our dog bare hand, causing a deep trauma to me and my older sister since we witness it. I would say it's lucky that our family survived with no harm at all from him. His manic period limited to destroying stuff (except once with the dog 😭), never violence to his own family. It was back in the 70's and we're from third world country, there's no advance medication or therapy for this kind of mental illness. Never underestimate a head injury, sometimes it caused an angel turn into a devil.
@@dewisudiastuti6198 I'm so sorry that happened to you, your family AND your father. If he did sustain a tbi (traumatic brain injury) he and everyone he loved was robbed of his true loving nature and it caused sorrow for all around you. Anytime anyone really gets any type of knock/hit to the head an mri should be done but as you said, your country may not have had that available. I hope you all are doing better these days.
I knew Cathy Davis when I was a kid. My folks are good friends with one of the people who lived at the villa from time to time and I have many very fond memories of holiday parties there. She was an incredible woman who deserved so much better.
MrBallen I appreciate how you tell your stories straight forward without too much over gesticulation and make your audience not feel overtly like you are trying to sell them something or sell yourself because that can be such a distraction from the actual content....smart consumers of information are kind of finicky that way or maybe it's just me, but thank you for being good at what you do. Followed
Did Johnny’s parents tell Cathy Davis about his psychological/neurological issues and criminal history? If they didn’t they were incredibly irresponsible.
I think they were very irresponsible. Your son obviously has violent tendencies, he's clearly not in his right mind, he just got out of prison for a break in and assault, yet you think its a good idea for him to move out on his own into a house with other people??? I just don't think that was wise.
Johnny Lewis’s mother, recently passed from cancer sadly, is my first cousin. Her parents, Johnny’s grandparents, were my favorite Aunt and Uncle. It’s my understanding that Johnny’s father is writing a book about this. Various assertions about drug abuse and other rumors have been painful to them as I have learned from other members in the extended family. That said, I wanted to thank you personally for telling this story truthfully and while I braced myself for this story to be painful and sensationalized, you did not do that. I have been a subscriber to your channel for a while now. I love how you can tell a story and yes, I love the strange dark and mysterious. Thank you for pointing out Johnny’s goodness prior to his decline. As a relative, it can be shocking - but Johnny was famous. I am going to share this with Johnny’s first cousin (their mother’s are sisters). Hoping he feels like I do-you handled the story well. Deepest sadness for his land lady and cat and others harmed. Meanwhile, your story felt less horrifying than others that I have heard which were peppered with rumor of drugs and only focused on the horrific killing that occurred, leaving out facts and I feel your rendition is an attribute to the need for the mentally ill (be it a diagnosis, such as a schizophrenic break, or results of a head injury). Thank you and keep up the good work keeping in mind that all involved may have family members listening to you tell the story.
Deep sympathy to your family......a young man who I grew up changed drastically after a head injury caused by a motorcycle accident. The anger and nastiness he displays now is so sad, he has turned violent and aggressive to any family who have tried to help him and he wont listen. His mother is heartbroken as he acts like he hates her with such evil aggression its awful. Yet he works and functions day to day but destroys any close relationships with his anger. He just changed into a complete different person. We need more research into head injuries. I wish your family and the victims all love and peace.
If you're on any social media, you might try telling him this on one of those. I don't think he checks comments after the secret is found, but I'm sure he'd love to read what you have to say!
It's interesting to hear a family member's perspective on this. It must've been so hard to deal with that and my thoughts are going out to you. Thank you so much for coming out and sharing this! It must've taken so much courage and bravery!
It’s strange, if you look at many of true crime cases (eg richard Ramirez, Jeffrey dahmer, and many more) had all suffered from head injuries. It just proves that we need to do more research on how head trauma can affect a person, and why it does.
@@dekeg.6795 I’m not saying everyone with a head injury becomes a serial killer, dawg. In just saying that there has been research that in some cases it does happen.
I've heard many stories similar to this, and seen some (much less severe, thank God) first-hand, and it still just blows my mind how much a head injury can change a person My condolences to everyone that lost someone in this incident, and I hope Johnny is remembered as the person he was before his accident. Whether it was a head injury or untreated mental illness, or both, that was no longer Johnny
Omg!!! I always wondered what happened to this Actor Johnny but finding out this way is shocking and you did awesome job telling the story as always!!! 🥰 keep up the awesome job!!
Poor guy goes from not wanting to play a violent character to being as brutal as some of the SoA characters. I believe the motorcycle crash did something to him
@@marq0992 i mean it kinda is a solid excuse.... brain damage causing you to do things you wouldn't have ever done normally is probably the one thing that could excuse him doing it.
I don’t think that it could be used in my eyes saying “I have a mental disorder it wasn’t my fault” so I don’t rly feel bad it just kinda sucks to see such a good guy go to that real easy just from something a doctor possibly didn’t see
Head trauma has given blind people their sight back, made people play instruments, draw when they never could, do math,ECT... savants..., it's incredible. You can truly turn into someone else...and sometimes you turn into something you don't want to be. It can be a blessing or a curse...
Well, 0.01% blessing, 99.99% curse. There are a few rare cases of benefit that may or may not actually exist, and a few cases of relatively harmless things like foreign accent syndrome, it is almost always a tough and life-ruining medical problem. The idea that a head injury makes you magically play the piano, or see if blind, etc. is Hollywood fantasy.
…my brother was bless after he had westnile virus and put into a coma. He’s making a bunch of money now as a pharmacist while I’m just a loser. Must be nice to have a beneficial head injury.
@@zerotodona1495 west Nile nor a coma put him in a position to become a pharmacist. That was hard work, effort and education. Unless you live in some 3rd world heap where they pass such qualifications out for the right amount of bribe money.
I’m fairly new to the stories,as I primarily use RUclips. I avoid other modern social media platforms. And I must say, Mr Ballen, you are absolutely amazing and help me mentally. In ways I cannot explain. So far there’s been a story for every mood, each one being amazing and immersive. Thank you so much.
I'm a veteran working on putting her life back together and you provide an incredibly soothing background narrative that helps keep me out of my own anxieties - even if the topics are dark and intense. I always look forward to your videos in the evening. I can tell you're a father with a caring spirit. You're out here helping vets. Keep it up ❤
We all in this together sister. I know I’m a random RUclips commenter but I’m still trying to adapt to civilian life, especially after Iraq. It gets better. The crucial traits are patience and restraint. Let us know if we can do anything
Thanks for all the details about this case. I'd known who Johnny was and felt shocked and saddened at how his life ended, but I'd never done a deep dive. How tragic for him and his victims.
Also: how can be that someone is deemed so unhinged to be placed in a psych ward, but be judged enough aware to be able to refuse medical checkup? (Not even procedure: that is another thing). Genuine question, idk how America Health sistem works in terms of coercitive care.
There was a time in the usa when people could "get rid of" family members by having them locked up in "insane asylums". I'd have to research it more, but from casual observation it seems that history has been behind legislation that makes it very difficult to force care on someone against their will, even if they really need it. The exception being if a person is an immediate threat to themselves, in which case they can only be held for 24-48 hours depending on the county.
This one was really sad. Cathy was such a good person, giving space and helping a lot of people that are trying a difficult path, she didn't even care for johnny's jail background, she was just happy to help
The cat part was just too much for me. Yeah it wasn't his fault because of traumatic brain injury. But I blame his family. They KNEW he had a brain injury, they KNEW he was acting strange and committing crimes. He was behaving violently. They needed to have him committed. They should have asked a judge for power of attorney. All they had to do was call 911 say he's having a mental health crisis and they'll keep him for three days and ask the doctors at the hospital to recommend they get power of attorney so he can receive further treatment. They failed their son. Just like the parents of the werewolf killer Mr.Ballen did a video on. They failed their son too. Don't fail your family members who are in mental health crisis. Call 911 get them evaluated. Please. If you choose not to do this the blo od's on your hands when something like this happens and your mentally ill loved one hurt someone.
@@zeuxlaught2797 oh my God I forgot about that! Yeah you're exactly right that makes everything so much worse. They should have left him in jail where he couldn't hurt anyone and he would have been transferred to a mental hospital, and a judge definitely would have ordered he get inpatient treatment. They literally had to do nothing to get him treatment all they had to do was not bail him out over and over again. Man this whole situation is a tragedy. The parents had to have failed their son like ten times in a row for this tragedy to happen. And that's exactly what they did. I hope they feel guilty for it. But something tells me that their the type of people who sleep well at night and don't blame themselves at all.
@@WhitneyDahlin I would not compare this to the werewolf family. I believe his parents loved and cared for him and did what they thought was best. It is hard enough to leave your child in jail, but it was making him significantly worse. They kept trying to get him to go to more doctors to find out what was wrong with him, but he kept skipping appointments and if he did go he would not go to the follow ups. As for calling 911 to have him committed, that is often more traumatizing than it is helpful and they rarely hold you more than 24-32 hours, luckily. I think sending him back to the writer’s villa was not an irrational decision. Of course you would not believe your son would murder an old friend, especially when he has only had a few violent outbursts on strangers, not friends or family. Going to a familiar, peaceful place, where he could express his artistic passion could be thought of like a form of therapy. There are many drug rehabilitation centers similar to this. They explained the situation to Cathy before he went there and she welcomed him with open arms.
I worked on a trauma floor at a hospital as a care team associate. The doctors would say that sometimes a head injury can change a patients personality. So it is extremely possible that it was an undiagnosed head injury that caused this. It's so sad that we'll never know for sure and that something wasn't done sooner for him to save both their lives.
After Johnny's motorcycle accident, when he was at the acting class and began speaking in a British sounding accent makes me think of Foreign Accent Syndrome. It's a real thing, very rare, and sufferers find themselves suddenly speaking in an accent completely unlike their own. It's theorized to be the result of a brain injury. If only Johnny had gone to have an MRI, like his parents had urged.
A lady I knew spoke with an Irish accent after a stroke. Not Irish, never been to Ireland..she was Australian. I also knew of a very elderly Italian woman who woke up from a stroke speaking only Spanish, for reasons no one in the family could understand. When family were doing research for a family tree they discovered that she had been born in Argentina, but her parents had returned to live in Italy when she was 2 or 3 years old.
This is why we need to make it easier to place people like this under temporary conservatorship. It's so clear as his behaviors worsen and his crimes escalate that he does not have the mental capacity to make decisions for himself until his condition is diagnosed and stabilized. There was a study that was done that found prison populations have three times higher rates of frontal lobe dysfunction than the general population, which would indicate brain dysfunction plays a big role in criminality. Forcing treatment instead of punishing through prison can help a good portion of criminals reform. The ones who can not reform and are dangerous due to severe brain disfunction or mental illness that doesn't respond to treatment should be put in some sort of permanent asylum where they can continue to try new treatments and be given some human dignity instead of being treated like a criminal who committed crimes by choice, while protecting society from them.
A relative of mine had a serious head injury, after he came out of a coma, he spoke with an English accent for a short period, he wasn't even aware of it & everyone was surprised by it since he was never around anyone with an English accent. He has become agoraphobic ever since the injury & doesn't like to stray too far from his home. Sad to see the change especially considering that he used to be an extremely outgoing, social & popular young man, animated, full of life, funny, talkative & entertaining, a dare devil who loved an audience--after the injury, he had a problem with understanding personal space or proper, censored conversation when around others which made people feel extremely uncomfortable, some individuals even threatened him physical harm & this has led unfortunately, to his isolating himself from the world, he's become quiet & reclusive & has anxiety attacks whenever he leaves his home. Brain injuries can definitely turn a person into someone entirely different.
That’s how I got schizophrenia… it’s not how people imagine it at all and misunderstood and I wouldn’t believe you if you told me the things it actually does before I had it. I learned the hard way (LITERALLY 😂) (Ik my illness isn’t a laughing matter nor any illness but having good fun with small jokes is ok and that’s coming from someone with the actual illness)
I'm living proof. I don't know who I was before the car accident and traumatic brain injury that changed my life; I remember some things, though it feels like I'm watching a home movie of someone else's life. My family and friends had to get to know an entirely new person. Its disconcerting for me, probably quite eerie for them.
I didn’t even know this guy died….let alone murdered an old lady and her cat. Yikes! See this is why people need to take head injuries more seriously. I understand his parents tried to get a second opinion but man, what a tragedy.
The problem is, someone who's lost their capacity of self control or informed decision making can't be trusted to do what is needed to get diagnosis and treatment. It used to be easier for courts and relatives to force people into treatment facilities, but patient's rights activists went way too far in making it hard to do that. If they could have put him under a temporary conservatorship or something in response to his initial criminal charge, they could have saved lives. It's sick and sad. There was one study that found that prison populations have around three times higher occurrence of frontal lobe dysfunction than the general population. The frontal lobe mediates your decision making process, pretty much. A really famous case of frontal lobe disorder in criminality would be the Boston Strangler, a serial killer who went on to take part in a lot of research while in prison and donated his body to science. I once saw a fascinating documentary about it.
@@ANPC-pi9vu You are completely right! I fell 8 yrs ago, seen lights and stars literally, puffy face had 2 black & blue eyes as well. The hospital ER doctors sent me on my way saying I was fine🙄 The next day they called and stated that I fractured my frontal lobe. I did go to a neurologist and they clamied it will heal ok, but I also had a concussion. I never went back, because at that time I didn't have insurance and no money. Since then I've been diagnosed with Depression and Bipolar Disorder. I really think that head injury has a lot to do with my mental health! It's sad that he didn't get the right help😔 If a different doctor didn't look at my MRI or CAT scan they would've never have seen my fracture. I think due to my substance abuse history they were very biased towards me. It's like they wanted me out of the ER🤷🏻♀️ Even though I looked like I had been in a car accident or beaten up badly...
@@tiredofitall9213 I know people who have gotten into car accidents and fights and gotten diagnosed with TBI, later on they got a bipolar diagnosis as well. People who damage their brains using synthetic drugs act in a similar manner.
@@tiredofitall9213 the psychologist who diagnosed you with bipolar disorder probably made notes attributing it to a possible TBI. I work in a psych ward, when we do nursing report, they will go over each patients diagnosis ,some are unspecified meaning that we don't know yet what is going on with them until further psych observation, but they'll mention past head injuries or drugs use or whatever is helpful in understanding what could be causing their current mental crisis/behaviors
I just came from jackie flores channel abt this story. But i just had to watch yours also, once i found out you covered this story too! You're just too damn good of a story teller mr ballen!😄
This is such a crazy, and almost an unbelievable story. I think that he must have been severely brain injured. Nobody in their right mind would do such horrifying things. I remember his characters from a few of his roles, and he seemed really cool. This is such a sad story.
He probably ended up with frontal lobe damage. The frontal lobe damage can cause change in personality, difficulty in interpreting ones environment, as well as not being able to adequately assess risks and danger. He basically lost his self control.. I wish someone was able to help him because Cathy and her cat didn’t deserve to have died.
Frontal lobe damage can result in the limbic brain (AKA The Guardienne, “automatic self,” or “adaptive unconscious”) taking over. It's capable of going through the motions of everyday life, more or less, but it has no conscience. This reminds me of the case of Phineas Gage, the railroad foreman who had an iron tamping bar blown through his brain. He lived for about 12 years afterward, but those who had been close to him said he wasn't the Phineas Gage they once knew.
the frontal lobe processes emotion. emotion does not originate from the brain. emotions are physiological. so when the frontal lobe is damaged , control of emotion is effected.
From the descriptions of the neighbor of how Johnny was just blank staring and how he showed no signs of being hurt by the punches or by the chair to the head he think he picked up some dark passenger while out in the desert. Especially compelling for this theory is the neighbors description of how Johnny jumped over those high walls.
Can you just leave a comment without being such a follower and saying " can we talk about how much " ?? Can we talk about how much of a loser w no life that you are just trying to get " likes " that you have to copy others that do this??? Can we ??
That's terrifying to think that a brain injury could alter your character that much. That is just such a terrible thought and I feel so bad for him and everyone else involved.
I think it's the TYPE of brain injury plus acting plus success stress that truly caused the character change and idk if I would call his character changed so much as scrambled
Not sure if head injury did this. Schizophrenia and bipolar conditions often don't show up until adulthood. If he had taken his meds he might still be alive and so would be his victim.
My husband suffered a TBI. I barely recognized him for years. We were fortunate enough that I was able to provide him with a few years of rest (he didn’t have to work or overly stress himself) so that he was able to heal. But it’s only been the last year I have finally started to see the man I married. That means I took over three years. And I also want to note I spent time in college studying brain injuries-this is really common, and the tests don’t have ways of looking at parts of the brain that change/effect personality. It’s all very tragic and if anything, I am surprised that Johnny couldn’t find a better specialist living in Hollywood
It’s scary to me bc a lot of times the injured doesn’t notice or feel the changes everyone else is seeing so they think everyone is out to get them or crazy, and it usually takes something drastic for them to see it. I feel like he was failed by the medical and juridical system, they had many opportunities to get him diagnosed whatever the outcome was. Could’ve prevented such a tragedy.
When you were describing the writer's Villa i was imagining what it'd be like to go there and work on my creative endeavors. Was thinking i'd look into it. Then i watched the rest of the video. Dang man.
That irony in this story is truly heartbreaking. Johnny disliked violence to the point he needed to get off Son of Anarchy for his own good. Only to get in a motorcycle accident and end up doing the what he left the show for, except obviously for real. Head injuries are really something else.. in some stories, people turn from an average person to a genius at something. Or from a kind person into something fearsome. I find it interested, but frightening, how even a single well placed punch could change someone’s personality like that.
Yeah there was so many Victims in this story Johnny was also one of them when he had that accident he was never Johnny. If that accident never happened things could have been different.
@@acrock21 that's what I've been saying me and my friend got I to an conversation about this mainly cause half Sack was my favorite character besides Jax and Opie
@@jokerspudding1192 He probably hit his head so hard that it damaged his memory... and since he had worked so hard on his character and given it so much emotion... his brain grabbed onto the memory of his character and his emotion from the show. He literally became what he hated. That doesnt change that he did what he did.
That frontal lobe damage really is crazy!! I first heard about how frontal lobe damage can change your personality and can essentially make you a completely different person in the book ‘The chimp paradox’ and it’s mental how this was not picked up by a medical professional!
Head injuries are no joke, they can cause serious issues. The hospital should’ve kept him in for observation. There’s been cases where folk have thought they’ve been attacked, had their home broken into, think they’re talking to people in front of them when none of these things have happened, but their head injury has messed them up and they’re convince these are really happening. So if you ever hurt your head, make sure they properly check you over, because it can get worse and worse.
@@Gino_567 If you ever met anyone with a traumatic brain injury, you might change your mind about that. You'd be surprised how it can completely change someone's personality.
@@capital_beaz4725 If you have a problem with abnormal personalities and their superficial affectations, you are a weapon of a particular cult. Society is much more harmful than the so-called problems it perceives.
If a patient starts speaking with a different accent after an injury to the head, it’s a strong possibility that they have developed a case of Foreign Accent Syndrome.
OMG such a heart breaking story 😢 poor Kathy and her cat, poor Johnny and his family.. awful all round. I actually thought of him recently, remembered seeing him in a movie and wondering whatever happened to him but never got around to googling it.. happened to click on this video by chance..
9:50 bottom right!!!
Except for my kid being born, this is the greatest day in the history of my life!
winner! its Conor Mcgregor! Wes is actually flying to Las Vegas right now to see him fight!
Gosh darn you Robert.
Ok I think I saw him flip us off lololol bottom right
Never mind I made my screen bigger and saw the pic lol BUT WAtch HIS HAND H E FLIPPED YOU OFF NOT ME LOL
Already man you guys make it your jobs to find these things lol
imagine, a guy who doesn't even want to play a violent character to become such a monster over a head injury
Hollyweird people probably made him crazy.
there's a fine line. sometimes erasing the feeling of guilt can make a monster vs a saint
@@rogerr6322 The dude was a full blown top shelf Hollyweird crazy himself.
That is a good observation. How ironic that is! Thanks for sharing this.
Wow I didnt even think of that
MrBallen: doesn't have a million ads in his videos or spend a year at the start of each video talking about a sponsor: the real MVP
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He doesn't click bait either xx
No click baiting, wonderful story teller. I don’t mind the people with sponsors in fact it makes me so happy they’re doing well enough to get one.
I think it's great when people get sponsored.. it's truly an accomplishment
No words to express how thankful I am for these facts!! 🙌💕
As sad as it is for him to have undergone so much trouble post the accident due to an undiagnosed brain injury, why are we not sympathising enough with the poor woman Cathy. She was a gem and dedicated her life to kindness. She did not deserve to meet such a terrible fate!
Right on point.
Very true.
Cathy
You're absolutely right! But I think it's because the story is about him, that the comments are focused on him.
Or the cat 😭😠
Poor Cathy and the cat 😢 A lot of serial killer that I have watched on YT or Netflix has a background of head injury during their early years. That's so sad for Johnny that it wasn't treated.
serial killers had patterns in their childhood,and head injury is not a reason
I wondered if they studied presence of head injury in development of the dark triad theory ? That's interesting. I watched similar things on serial killers and did not notice that.
It can be one of the reasons for violent, destructive behavior and personality changes.@@LinaPoe
He gets a year in prison for breaking into someone's house and assaulting them... But they drop it to 6 weeks because the prison is overcrowded 😂😂😂 what kind of broken ass legal system is that
✨America✨
Too many murders have been perpetrated by people who were supposed to be in prison but instead were let back on the streets.
Nonviolent offenders should be the only prisoners afforded any leeway.
Justice System seems intent on letting the most psychotic prisoners out.
You don’t know the fuckin half of it smh
@@sauljahboi5965 Yes, so true but be careful...you might offend all of the snowflakes here advocating for this violent killer.
It is what it is
Imagine having a full career and a whole ass family to still be referred to as: Katy Perry's ex. lmao.
Well this video was posted this year, way after the crime and way after SOA came out. Katy Perry is still relevant so it makes sense to choose this video title. Heck it got me to click on it.
@@mayle2010 thats kind of my point. The relationship with Katy completely overshadows his entire career lol.
@@javagoblin1585 in fairness that is the reason why I clicked on this video
Click Baity for sure.
Id be happy to be known as that. Just having dated Katy perry would be the highlight of my life
My husband got a brain injury from a bicycle accident. The thing they don’t tell you about head injuries is that the person you knew is never coming back. Recovery is not what you think it is. The person may relearn how to do things, but they will have a different personality, a different sense of humor, and even different memories of their life with you. If you’re lucky, they won’t be violent. But it’s like suddenly you have this roommate that everybody else thinks is the same person as before, but he’s so different that you might not even want to call him by his old name. And you’re supposed to pretend that this is the same guy as before. It’s like science fiction.
Wow😢
I get it!
Sometimes they do come back thats why they dont tell you that, that would be crazu
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Sadly, well said. I'm sorry.
What a sad story. I'm a nurse of 18 years. I have an ex that i suspected had narcissistic personality disorder. We had been broke up for years, and he was in the shower at his home one day and his feet slid out from under him and he was knocked out for a few minutes. He refused to ever go get checked out. After that his behaviors became bizarre, he was absolutely disillusional and he ended up stalking me, breaking into my house and assulting my adult son. Hes in prison now for 6 years. As much as i cant stand him i know he has a head injury that exacerbated his mental health issues. He was in his early 30s, on a fast track with his career, making great money, bought his own house...and lost everything.
Sorry to hear about your struggles, its good you moved on with your life though, just keep pushing forward and hopefully your ex gets some proper treatment.
Life is brittle…what difference would the diagnostic words have made. You still can’t treat it?
Johnny really died the day of that motorcycle accident; he was never the same after. The doctor who refused to diagnose him is incredibly incompetent.
Science still knows very little about the brain. Doctors aren't magicians mate. What was he going diagnose him with? The mri scan didn't show any physical damage to the brain. Maybe if he stayed on his meds the second doctor prescribed, it would've helped. Short of a Judge slapping Johnny with a conservatorship, what else can be done? Johnny just sounds like an asshole.
@@MrAkaacer There WAS no MRI scan, and light sensitivity is a dead giveaway to a head injury. Couple that with the odd behavior and you’ve got such an obvious head injury someone who’s NOT a doctor would know it immediately.
thats a scary story in itself how bad most doctors are , just dope pushers for big pharma companies , not real doctors
exactly.
@@MrAkaacer maybe if the system would have taken better care of him and not release him, they would be better help mate.
A friend of mine was hit in the head with a brick during a mugging. He was in a coma for about a week and came around with a.different personality. The sweetest,.kindest guy was suddenly aggressive, angry and rude. It took months for his previous personality to re-emerge. When you look at the worst killers you often find traumatic head injuries in their past. Never underestimate a head injury.
he's lucky to have a friend like you who stuck around through his dark times instead of just abandoning him. wish everyone could have loyal friends like that, myself included. glad he recovered from such a heinous crime, even if partially.
Ay, my daughter is very young and is dating someone who has a TBI and I don't know him and worry about her because of how common TBI's and violence have been linked.
@@canterburytail2294 Have you told her about your worries. Maybe show her this video or something else to scare her away from him. Better to scare her than to for something to actually happen. I hope she is ok. Sometimes parents over worry so that may be the case also. I am a worry wort so no judgement.
We also have to make sure not to sensationalize head injuries as well. Not everyone that has a head injury will be a serial killer or even a bad person in general. My sister had a pretty bad head injury and she’s largely the same now. Just a few small changes.
@@canterburytail2294 don’t worry about that. I think she should be cautious, but no more cautious than around anyone else. My sister had a brain injury and she’s largely the same person. And not violent at all.
My sister currently has a brain injury from a car accident a few months ago. It really changed her personality and she’s still trying to figure out how to live again. It’s really scary and I can totally see how a brain injury could cause this.
I experienced a TBI from a horrible accident. I had my seatbelt on; and, the airbag deployed. But, my seat came unbolted from the floorboard. I broke my ocular bones, nose, and 4 places on the top of my skull and forehead. It took years & competent counselors; and, I am able to be me again. 🎉
I got something out of todays episode. I need to figure out how to help my wife, shes not the same, and she's had recent head injuries. I feel beyond bad for not putting it together sooner. Thank you for this. I miss her and she needs help. I feel so awful.
I have been dealing with the same with my teenage daughter for the past 3 years. It’s impossible to get help through insurance. Try looking into Prodrome Glia and exercise with oxygen therapy.
Any update?
re you ok?
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@@DiamondCake2what's so funny, bro?
The strangest thing is that he left sons of anarchy because it was too violent but then became so violent in his personal life. Very scary that a brain injury can cause this.
Or if he did have schizophrenia, they usually have triggers that worsen their auditory/visual hallucinations - if he had angry voices yelling at him all the time in his head he probably wouldn't have enjoyed being around more anger, externally. One of my best friends hates clowns because one manifestation of her schizophrenia (the one that apparently bothers her the most) is a big face with exaggerated features that laughs at her at inappropriate times.
Read what happens to the singer of INXS. He had a head injury and lost his sense of smell. He was never the same after that. A blow to the brain can change a person so much. It’s crazy.
Maybe it was sons of anarchy
@cappiece3786 exactly what I was thinking. The show was about a violent motorcycle gang. It was a motorcycle accident that somehow triggered his personality change. Coincidence?
@@multi-mason maybe but very strange 🤔
The drastic change in his personality right after the bike accident is evidence enough for me to lean towards traumatic brain injury. It’s too much of a coincidence for it to not be.
I know right? Even Katy Perry said in an interview about him just after the whole ordeal. She said she couldn't put a finger on him and his mood swings.
It was like one minute he was hot n then cold yes n then no in n then out up n then down....
@@BUSTRCHERRI 🤯
Agree,
Such a tragedy in so many ways.
@@BUSTRCHERRI this is a joke my husband of 15 years would make. What annoys me is I still didnt catch it immediately. 😑😆
Hi Sam
It’s interesting to hear this story so compassionately told. I heard about this crime years ago as him being a meth head and sadist and it struck me that this all just seemed incongruent with his previous life. Makes a lot more sense that he had a head injury, thank you for getting a fuller picture out there, this must be a comfort to his loved ones to be able to let the public know he wasn’t just a demon.
He was sacrificed…demon possesion…he wanted out of Hollywood and got punished…to bad no one recognized this and prayed for him…demonic possesion without knowlege of how it works takes over the person…so sad 😢
Yeah that's the way it was reported for a while, they even accused him of being on 25i-nBome at the time of the murder but never once did he have drugs in his system when examined. He was even put into a court ordered rehab or detox thing because they assumed his behavior was drug related. I went years believing he was just extremely mentally ill and combined that with severe drug abuse.
@deadzeppelin9565 you may not have been wrong believing he was mentally ill and struggling with drug abuse. there was never definitive proof that he had a TBI. his behavior was similar to psychosis. traumatic brain injuries can, indeed, make a person aggressive or violent. psychosis, either from mental illness or drug induced, explains his behaviors: hearing a voice that wasn't there, pacing back and forth, his superhuman strength, his ability to jump the gate, then hop over the wooden fence. meth can trigger schizophrenia. although, there IS a link between TBI's and psychosis so....
He might have actually had a demon, I’ve seen it before, it looks like mental illness or drug induced psychosis, but the superhuman strength and no expression indicates to me that he just wasn’t in there during that time frame.
The sheer resilience of someone experiencing a psychotic break terrifies me,they can can so much damage and still act completely unphased not to mention their sheer strength as well
My whole life I've always known my uncle as an erratic, impulsive, and angry man easily prone to violence and making bad choices that landed him in prison. My mom told me he wasn't always like that he was a very different person before I was born, she said he was smart, kind, compassionate. Then he was t boned by a drunk driver, he survived but sustained a serious brain injury after that he was never the same. Even after he died of liver disease my heartbroken mother said "we finally put your uncle to rest, I wish you got to meet my real little brother but he died all those years ago in that car crash"
How sad.
I sm so sorry. My cousin had a head injury and he totally changed at the end of his life. He became violent and tried to murder my brother. He was murdered. His craziness caused it.
i’m sorry to hear that
@@bluesakura2092 It was sad he changed so much. People in the family didn't want him around.
i wanna give ur mom a hug :( sad story, i feel for u guys.
I'm with the brain injury crowd. Sounds like a frontal lobe injury. Such a shame.
Its not unheard of for trauma to kick mental illness into action. Also he was entering the age that schizophrenia tends to crop up.
It's insane that the doctor didn't do the MRI anyway. I don't understand why.
Yep. Especially that frontal lobe. I’ve seen a lot of meth users get like that and that drug wrecks havoc on that part of the brain.
Agreed and there has to be a more in depth way to check for TBIs, because what was done by this guy proves this.
@@pollypockets508 It's up to the patient in the end unfortunately
Sensitivity to light is a huge symptom of head injury
Johnny Lewis was also on an episode of criminal minds. As someone who has met several psychologically disturbed individuals, I can tell you his performance in that show is chilling, he seemed to resonate deeply with his character. It is likely he kept his mental health under control up until the accident. Brain injuries make certain health issues much harder to hide or control. Personalities change with trauma or anaesthesia as it is. For a professional to take issue with violence while filming SOA - knowing the show, it probably brought forth personal issues he did not expect & up until the accident could control. While I adored him in his career, I regret to have to observed the evil he tried to keep from getting out. We don't always win that battle.
I have a traumatic brain injury from a car accident. It changed my entire life. Scholarship was gone, career was gone, wife left me. I spent years in chaos. It took me getting real help and settling down to focus on family to even begin to turn it around. It makes me sad that Johnny was unable to get the help he needed earlier. Thank you for approaching this subject so carefully, MrBallen.
Hey FF, would you like to explain to me how you found a cure to your problems? It might help me a lot too. Kind regards
@@sigsantacruz Thanks for your answer, as im still pretty young this is bad news for me. I´m looking for a doc that might help me one day, but so far the search is devastating. I wish you all the best for the future. regards R.
@Nancy Hollo thank you. God bless.
@@Keny990 Be strong, friend.
He and his family were apparently hardcore scientologists, and scientology *HATES* psychiatry for... reasons.
Dan is a real one for saving that random worker guy. Easily could’ve just called the cops and not gotten involved, but he stepped in and helped the dude get away.
That’s back in the days, now people would let the worker die and record for RUclips
yeah it takes some massive balls to do that. and i bet the they were terrified once they learned what he was capable of
@@YoloMasterGamerTag its sad but true
@@YoloMasterGamerTag back in the day? It was like 2012. That wasn’t that long ago. Lolok
Call the police and wait 20-25 minutes to watch this idiot kill the worker really? bleeding-heart liberals they're all over the place damn?
Thank you for telling a full story in a reasonable amount of time. No one has an hour and a half for every agonizing detail of a story. Great job!!
Why didn't they do a study of his brain after his death? What a sad story.
Johnny died the day of his motorcycle accident. After that it was a different person.
Could be a walk in.
That's exactly what I was thinking some one or something else took over.
@@user-ct1md9lw9d I don't think he's making up excuses. At least in my eyes, what Johnny did was horrifying. I think he sustained a brain injury in that accident and who he was changed. Look into frontal cortex injuries -- though I've not heard of one to cause this extreme of behavior shift that quickly, it has to be more than that, I'd think. And then when he went to the one Doctor, they didn't handle it correctly, and because Johnny was an adult, there wasn't a lot anyone could do to force him back to the Doctors. Whole thing is a series of unfortunate events. It's sad Cathy paid with her life for it, because who Johnny was died the day of the accident.
@@halosaskew6001 true. Like Jim Morrison
CM. Very true.
The poor old lady. She was just living life and helping young gifted people out. So sad
That’s why you cannot let mentally unstable people into your life.
@@gummy5862 ... Or your home lol
@@Mr.CliffysWorld no shit
He need serious medical help it's sad.He have got the proper medical help earlier this could have been stop.
@@gregoryhitchcock5258 So i learned his parents were Scientology members can't confirm but if it's true, they are directly responsible for this.
Remembering what happened to Michael Hutchence. He refused medical treatment after a severe head injury too. Tragic.
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The doctors failed him and everyone that was affected by his brain injury behaviour...a truly tragic story.
his parents did too. they should’ve dragged him to the hospital and told the doctors what what going on themselves. i live with someone with a brain injury, you cannot just expect them to tell the drs everything that is going on
@@mkv2718 I still think he had undiagnosed psychological issues. The head injury accentuated this. There were things going on with him prior to that bike ride that were not addressed.
@@mkv2718 I think that depends on the state you reside whether or not you can be admitted by someone else if you're an adult. It is really sad though.
Sounds right to me. Obviously wasn't normal behavior so poor guy must have had bad brain damage. Maybe even something that wasn't found ,or just plain crazy.
@Chris Shaffer If they really loved him then they wouldve
It's like, he got stuck in the character he didn't like playing.
damn maybe his head injury was so severe that his brain was unable to disassociate his acting roles from his real personality.
Wildddd
Also thought about it, but his character was actually not violent at all, so nah. (also not British 😆)
I had a TBI when i was 16 i put my body between me and a girl sitting on the center consel and I went through the windshield of a jeep. I can definitely attest to the violent outbursts and dramatic change in personality at times these days it doesnt happen as often but sometimes the littlest things will trigger me to become violently angry ive had to learn to control it because i wasnt going back to prison for a 4th time the previous 3 definitely did nothing to help my condition other than give me a place where i didnt get in as much trouble for beating people, quite literally half to death but hey ive been managing to cope alot better these last 8 years I've been free.
@@ItsMeTyScott im sorry to hear about that,what a shame and broken system,😣 I really wish you the best and I'm happy your able to control it for the most part 🤍
Your stories really get me thru the workday. Thanks Mr Ballen!
You have a natural talent for story telling!!I enjoy your channel so much!!
The fact that he went on a rampage before going out like that, is frightening, rest in peace to Cathy and her cat
And him to be fair, that wasn't him, it had to be something like the head injury, God love all involved, poor guy obviously had something bad going on, they all deserved a different outcome,...its all very sad..if my child went trough something like that I wouldn't be letting him go off to live else where, id want him close to keep an eye on the situation, its a bit of a fail on his parents part, I know they never could have known but they did know that was very out of caricature for there son...
you are everywhere
off topic but you’re everywhere👁👄👁
@@bigbiemacaw God created the situation and allowed this insanity to happen by that logic. Not a very loving god that you describe.
@@refluxcatalyst7190 God gave you the free will to judge why bad things happen😝
Honestly Head injuries are probably one of the most terrifying things-
You can hit your head (like in a car accident) and your personality can completely SHIFT.
No pun intended? Lol
@@micheleparker838 that’s terrible, hope they are doing well
That happened to my friend. She was an actress. It changed her whole life
Happened to me
I’ve seen this happen with 4 of my closest friends one of which had a very promising career in welding, which was his favorite thing to do; even after work he’d be welding up some art or some project he wanted to do. After his head injury he decided he never wanted to weld again and now works on a charter fishing boat and hasn’t touched a welder sense, he also lost his drive to excel in life, now he just doesn’t care and rides life like a wave instead of trying to surf life which is how he lived life before! Always wear a helmet when head injuries are a factor it could save your life or your life from changing forever!!!
Thank you Mr. Ballen for the endless entertainment! You work hard for us and we appreciate you!
As a former medical professional (now retired,) I believe he had a head injury that should have been researched better before starting him on psych meds! I had a wife call once when I was advice RN, she told me about a fall her spouse had from slipping on ice. He'd been seen but brain injury was ruled out, doctors didn't feel concerned that despite several weeks passing, he was still having headaches and other mentality changes. I told her to take him to the emergency room in the bigger city, Portland, OR, about an hours drive away. It turns out that my hubby worked with this guy, and he did have a head injury, a significant one that could have ended very badly!
Yeah I'm really disgusted by the lazy ass doctors
After his accident, the light sensitivity, to the extreme in his case- is a dead giveaway of a head injury.
People with migraines also have extreme light sensitivity
@P. R. A great combination of incompetent doctors and questionable parental concerns. Throw some pills at it.
@@afterthestorm7012 did you hear the same thing I did. The dad kept urging his son to go to a doctor that would look into the head injury. He didn’t just “throw pills at it”.
@@flyhog8574 I'm sorry you're right the dad did urge him to see a doctor.
YES! Think about CTE. Remember Aaron Hernandez?
Mr Ballen: a woman AND HER CAT needlessly died. As if there weren’t any more reasons to love Mr. Ballen, he makes sure to mention the cat and the importance of his/her death as well. Poor woman and kitty 😿
Why are you afraid to misgender a cat?
@@SonikPanther * eye roll
For animals you don't know the gender, It is used
@@SonikPanther 😂🤣👍🏻
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Such a sad story. I wish he had accepted help before it was too late. It really looks like he was misdiagnosed and neglected by the doctors. RIP all 😔
Cathy made me on the verge or tears and then i heard about the cat and i was devastated. Neither of them deserved to go through such a terrible fate just because of one motorcycle accident.
People have no understanding of how life changing head injuries really are until it happens to them.
100%…it’s terrifying to discover that, for better or worse; you’re a different person. You lose your identity and become terrified of your own capabilities
After 6 diagnosed concussions over 8 years of football and dozens and dozens of un diagnosed bell ringings that I just pretended like I was ok so I didn’t miss time playing I can tell you for certain I am a completely different person after every single head trauma event. I’m still fucked up and will be for the rest of my life. I’m 27 now I stopped playing football at 19…
Can be worse for the family.
It sounds on the story he didnt after the fact either...
@@bigdadddyd123 In Swedish icehockey youre not allowed to continue playing after your fifth i believe.
Frontal lobe head injuries are now one of the leading hypothesis for serial killers. All of the major ones have a confirmed and unconfirmed head injuries.
I knew that Fred West had a brain injury (from an accident in his youth if I recall) - I wasn't aware of any confirmed or unconfirmed head injuries for any of the other major sk's that spring to mind.
What about all of the serial killers that were part of the mk ultra trails.... ohh don’t cancel me 🤣
That tracks
Definitely an extremely exacerbating factor. Also, I've never heard of a naturally aggressive/antisocial person becoming more peaceful after a frontal lobe injury. It always seems to go the other way.
I wonder if there's also a heritability to these kinds of personality changing head injuries, too. When we hear about killers and people, who have been violent from an early age (or, indeed, children who are violent and/or killers), we usually find that they've come from violent and disfunctional backgrounds. So, we have been putting the manifestations squarely at the feet or learned behavior and/or a bit of genetics. What if violent parents, generation by generation, smacking their children around is actually procuring character changing head injuries that in turn lead to the children being more violent and abusing their own children?
Mostly, we raise our children to avoid drugs. We try. We rarely put any effort into raising them to avoid activities that could cause physical brain damage. In some parts of the UK - it's almost seen as a mark of parental love to give the boys mini motorbikes. Get them out banging their heads up as soon as possible.
@@batintheattic7293 I don't think so, people have been getting genital mutilated for thousands of years and yet every baby boy is still born with a foreskin and every girl is born with intact labia. there could be epigenetic changes that get passed down but likely those would be changes related to healing brain injuries which would make them less likely to get sever brain damage that won't heal. One thing that could very much get passed down is hormone levels, neurotransmitter levels, and variations in brain structure.
now none of that really discounts your theory, but what does discount your theory at least to me, is that domestic violence, pedophilia, murder, serial murder, rape, and most other violent offenses are usually committed by someone who had violence or abuse done towards them in their child hood, but the important part is that this correlation is only seen in men, and women who commit violent or abusive crimes have no more or less chance than any other woman to have been abused or hurt in the past. If it was something getting passed on generation to generation why would it only ever have an effect on men when women commit almost as many violent or abusive crimes the only exception being murder.
also if you look at it from an evolutionary perspective passing on chronic injuries to your children is the stupidest possible thing imaginable, sure it could be able to happen a little bit but those people who have the ability to pass on physical trauma to their children would be very quickly weeded out of the gene pool as that family would slowly degenerate over time.
This reminded me of Chris Benoit's case, it's somewhat similar with the head injury thing. Never underestimate the effects of having your head hit or accidentally hitting yourself on the head no matter how minor it may seem.
The part Jonny played last in Hollywood was the igniting factor and then the motorcycle accident triggered everything up, he was already trying to disassociate himself from the act before he went back to his parents in order to isolate and in the process he had the accident. It's not much of the accident but the triggering bullet was the last part he played in Hollywood, He knew i,t the ghost of the act was overwhelming him that's why he decided to quit playing in the movie, the money doesn't matter he was all the while trying to disassociate himself from the act. He couldn't differenciate anymore from fact and fiction. It happens to Arnold Schwarzenegger too sometimes but excercise helps him to cope, anytime you make a block buster film, be prepared for this kind of episodes in life.
It's so, so scary how easily a normal person can become something sinister because of a simple injury.
Nothing simple about a brain injury .
Yeah, Joe Rogan has had some guests on that had a head injury that ended up completely changing their personalities.
Such as Rosanne.
We're all just a compilation of a bunch of chemicals.
This what my mom always says, if you want to discipline your children don't ever put your hands on their heads.
@@sirfgmk2 don't hit them ever*
@@az9498 Well, not really, we're by no means a "chemical soup" as they say. Have to remember, our entire body was assembled from raw material via the intelligence of a single cell, and a single cell is like a city inside We're a bunch of highly organized material, and tragically you can never truly know the entirety of yourself.
I remember my mother crying when this happened. The woman he killed was her landlord and the first friend she made when she moved to LA about forty years ago 😟
Oh my gosh I’m so sorry for her! So sad
Omg.. this is devastating. I'm so sorry to your mom and that you had to see her in pain over this
Bullshit lol
@@MisterDevos not everyone is a capper, it has as much capacity for truth as it does a lie.
I feel more sad for her poor cat, getting dismembered. I hate that ppl usually never mention animal victims who r utterly helpless n innocent.
Only just came across your channel and been binging through most of the back catalogue. This one chills me, several members of my family suffered dementia and the whole experience of watching them slowly become nothing but a shell has left me with the fear of one day loosing my mind. The thought a mental health condition or injury can lead to something similar is one of my biggest fears. I've always said that I never want to see a ghost, not because I am afraid of ghosts but if I did see one I would know I have lost my mind
This is the second story I have watched, I think you are an excellent narrator! ,!
My daughter has TBI from a trampoline fall. Doctors refused to do any imaging at the ED and no one listen that she was "different" after this for three years. Finally I found a doctor that took my concerns seriously and tested her. November 2019, she got a tbi diagnosis. Advocate for yourselves and your loved ones!
Yes u have to unfortunately we are human in healthcare and are usually understaffed...however any fall with the slightest chance of head trauma HAS to get a CT scan to rule out a cranial bleed or hematoma it's just a given however not all professionals are professional or may be focused on less important factors...
Always do what you think is right. If you feel a doctor is not doing what they should, insist or get another opinion. Always fight for your loved ones!
This past 1.5 years have proven to me that just because someone has a medical degree doesn't make them intelligent. Too many stupid drs in the world so you have to persevere until you get an intelligent one.
My father was the sweetest and kind person, or so my mother, family and people around us said (I wasn't born yet during this period 😅). One day he got hit and run when he was just standing by the sidewalk, hence where he got his head injury and he never the same person again. He was a mess bipolar, his mood swings is so severed that once he killed our dog bare hand, causing a deep trauma to me and my older sister since we witness it. I would say it's lucky that our family survived with no harm at all from him. His manic period limited to destroying stuff (except once with the dog 😭), never violence to his own family. It was back in the 70's and we're from third world country, there's no advance medication or therapy for this kind of mental illness. Never underestimate a head injury, sometimes it caused an angel turn into a devil.
@@dewisudiastuti6198 I'm so sorry that happened to you, your family AND your father. If he did sustain a tbi (traumatic brain injury) he and everyone he loved was robbed of his true loving nature and it caused sorrow for all around you. Anytime anyone really gets any type of knock/hit to the head an mri should be done but as you said, your country may not have had that available. I hope you all are doing better these days.
I knew Cathy Davis when I was a kid. My folks are good friends with one of the people who lived at the villa from time to time and I have many very fond memories of holiday parties there. She was an incredible woman who deserved so much better.
My condolences. Incredibly sad. 💔
Damn, I’m so sorry x
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We dont give a fuck
@@mikemadore8856 shut up Mike!! Yes we do
MrBallen I appreciate how you tell your stories straight forward without too much over gesticulation and make your audience not feel overtly like you are trying to sell them something or sell yourself because that can be such a distraction from the actual content....smart consumers of information are kind of finicky that way or maybe it's just me, but thank you for being good at what you do. Followed
I finally see the face behind those awesome stories thank you so so so much I loooove them ❤
The irony is that he became the very thing he left his job for in the end, with his acting role. Hope they all found peace in the end.
Some found piece.
I thought the same. it's so sad
Fr shouldve just chased the bag 😥
It seems like he was repressing his aggression and it came out when he took a knock to the head. Crazy story.
Hi richard
Did Johnny’s parents tell Cathy Davis about his psychological/neurological issues and criminal history? If they didn’t they were incredibly irresponsible.
I think they were very irresponsible. Your son obviously has violent tendencies, he's clearly not in his right mind, he just got out of prison for a break in and assault, yet you think its a good idea for him to move out on his own into a house with other people??? I just don't think that was wise.
in the video he says that the parents explained the situation to her
I agree
@@ivyhenderson6127 I don't think explanation is enough, people with mental disorder are somewhat dangerous
They share blame in this
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. And wow you are a great storyteller! I see why you have so many subscribers (+1 😊)
Love the way you tell stories
Johnny Lewis’s mother, recently passed from cancer sadly, is my first cousin. Her parents, Johnny’s grandparents, were my favorite Aunt and Uncle. It’s my understanding that Johnny’s father is writing a book about this. Various assertions about drug abuse and other rumors have been painful to them as I have learned from other members in the extended family. That said, I wanted to thank you personally for telling this story truthfully and while I braced myself for this story to be painful and sensationalized, you did not do that. I have been a subscriber to your channel for a while now. I love how you can tell a story and yes, I love the strange dark and mysterious. Thank you for pointing out Johnny’s goodness prior to his decline. As a relative, it can be shocking - but Johnny was famous. I am going to share this with Johnny’s first cousin (their mother’s are sisters). Hoping he feels like I do-you handled the story well. Deepest sadness for his land lady and cat and others harmed. Meanwhile, your story felt less horrifying than others that I have heard which were peppered with rumor of drugs and only focused on the horrific killing that occurred, leaving out facts and I feel your rendition is an attribute to the need for the mentally ill (be it a diagnosis, such as a schizophrenic break, or results of a head injury). Thank you and keep up the good work keeping in mind that all involved may have family members listening to you tell the story.
Deep sympathy to your family......a young man who I grew up changed drastically after a head injury caused by a motorcycle accident. The anger and nastiness he displays now is so sad, he has turned violent and aggressive to any family who have tried to help him and he wont listen. His mother is heartbroken as he acts like he hates her with such evil aggression its awful. Yet he works and functions day to day but destroys any close relationships with his anger. He just changed into a complete different person. We need more research into head injuries. I wish your family and the victims all love and peace.
If you're on any social media, you might try telling him this on one of those.
I don't think he checks comments after the secret is found, but I'm sure he'd love to read what you have to say!
Sorry for your loss ❤️🙏
This is so sad. Half sack was one of my favorite characters on Sons.
It's interesting to hear a family member's perspective on this. It must've been so hard to deal with that and my thoughts are going out to you. Thank you so much for coming out and sharing this! It must've taken so much courage and bravery!
It’s strange, if you look at many of true crime cases (eg richard Ramirez, Jeffrey dahmer, and many more) had all suffered from head injuries. It just proves that we need to do more research on how head trauma can affect a person, and why it does.
Jeffrey was killing animals in his childhood not sure he should be included
Chris Beniot the wrestler who killed his wife and son had a lot brain damage it's so sad
I have no doubt this is how serial killers are made. Or at least a big factor. Several have been known to have a history of head injury.
I had a massive head injury & I'm not a serial killer. Just sayin
@@dekeg.6795 I’m not saying everyone with a head injury becomes a serial killer, dawg. In just saying that there has been research that in some cases it does happen.
I've heard many stories similar to this, and seen some (much less severe, thank God) first-hand, and it still just blows my mind how much a head injury can change a person
My condolences to everyone that lost someone in this incident, and I hope Johnny is remembered as the person he was before his accident. Whether it was a head injury or untreated mental illness, or both, that was no longer Johnny
Omg!!! I always wondered what happened to this Actor Johnny but finding out this way is shocking and you did awesome job telling the story as always!!! 🥰 keep up the awesome job!!
Poor guy goes from not wanting to play a violent character to being as brutal as some of the SoA characters. I believe the motorcycle crash did something to him
Just gotta state that it is no excuse though.
@@marq0992 I totally agree, so unfortunate this happened.
This guy is like a horror movie killer. He feels no damage, he is extremely strong, and he doesn’t talk.
@@marq0992 i mean it kinda is a solid excuse.... brain damage causing you to do things you wouldn't have ever done normally is probably the one thing that could excuse him doing it.
I don’t think that it could be used in my eyes saying “I have a mental disorder it wasn’t my fault” so I don’t rly feel bad it just kinda sucks to see such a good guy go to that real easy just from something a doctor possibly didn’t see
Head trauma has given blind people their sight back, made people play instruments, draw when they never could, do math,ECT... savants..., it's incredible. You can truly turn into someone else...and sometimes you turn into something you don't want to be. It can be a blessing or a curse...
Well, 0.01% blessing, 99.99% curse. There are a few rare cases of benefit that may or may not actually exist, and a few cases of relatively harmless things like foreign accent syndrome, it is almost always a tough and life-ruining medical problem. The idea that a head injury makes you magically play the piano, or see if blind, etc. is Hollywood fantasy.
…my brother was bless after he had westnile virus and put into a coma. He’s making a bunch of money now as a pharmacist while I’m just a loser. Must be nice to have a beneficial head injury.
@@zerotodona1495 or maybe your just not doing enough?
@@zerotodona1495 west Nile nor a coma put him in a position to become a pharmacist. That was hard work, effort and education. Unless you live in some 3rd world heap where they pass such qualifications out for the right amount of bribe money.
@@Itried20takennames i've heard of a guy who started to talk another language after some injury, so no, it's not a fantasy
I’m fairly new to the stories,as I primarily use RUclips. I avoid other modern social media platforms. And I must say, Mr Ballen, you are absolutely amazing and help me mentally. In ways I cannot explain. So far there’s been a story for every mood, each one being amazing and immersive. Thank you so much.
You really do tell the stories really well
He ended up being the guy he never wanted to be
Really good point
Wow, yeah talk about life imitating art, or vise versa.😧🤔😔
Ah man, this made me really sad 😔
This comment made me so sad 😞
People often find their destiny on the path they took to avoid it!
Mr Ballen: "Todays story is about a Hollywood actor who did something truly horrific". Me: "Can you narrow it down a bit please"
So horrible but so true! 😳
We all have very low expectations of Hollywood these days.
Lol
because Hollywood "people" are slime
Right ?
"They're just like us! They murder and Rob people!"
I stumbled upon MrBallen a few weeks ago. I'm totally enthralled by his stories and story telling ability ❤
Great story John.. Sounds like this guy truly had a head injury affecting the part of his brain that caused all the disturbing behavior.
Katy Perry's ex wasn't a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format.
this comment is amazing lol
Who has it been a ex of Katy Perry
Look at you BlueOmega you got 75 likes WOW 😁😁😁😁
Hahahaha YESSSS
@@sneakylike333 shit went up by 200 real quick haha
I'm a veteran working on putting her life back together and you provide an incredibly soothing background narrative that helps keep me out of my own anxieties - even if the topics are dark and intense. I always look forward to your videos in the evening. I can tell you're a father with a caring spirit. You're out here helping vets. Keep it up ❤
Im n middle of nervous attack right now seeking somethin to help my mind
Thank you for your service💙
@Relaine Thank you for your service and I hope things get better. Mr Ballen is a vet too....❤
@@jrwizz i suffer from anxiety attacks myself! Hang in there!
We all in this together sister. I know I’m a random RUclips commenter but I’m still trying to adapt to civilian life, especially after Iraq. It gets better. The crucial traits are patience and restraint. Let us know if we can do anything
Thanks for all the details about this case. I'd known who Johnny was and felt shocked and saddened at how his life ended, but I'd never done a deep dive. How tragic for him and his victims.
Great..❤.Thanks Mr Ballen 🙋♀️
How can that doctor """not suspect""" a head injury when he checked literally every box for one on the frontal lobe???
Also: how can be that someone is deemed so unhinged to be placed in a psych ward, but be judged enough aware to be able to refuse medical checkup? (Not even procedure: that is another thing). Genuine question, idk how America Health sistem works in terms of coercitive care.
There was a time in the usa when people could "get rid of" family members by having them locked up in "insane asylums". I'd have to research it more, but from casual observation it seems that history has been behind legislation that makes it very difficult to force care on someone against their will, even if they really need it. The exception being if a person is an immediate threat to themselves, in which case they can only be held for 24-48 hours depending on the county.
The US 'Healthcare' system is worthless as a second world country. EVERYTHING about it sucks.
@@MelissaKopcho ~ you’re pretty much spot on
@@yuwannakno1269 agreed. Last time I used the health care system (with insurance!!) I got a $350 bill for a FLU TEST.
This one was really sad. Cathy was such a good person, giving space and helping a lot of people that are trying a difficult path, she didn't even care for johnny's jail background, she was just happy to help
The cat part was just too much for me. Yeah it wasn't his fault because of traumatic brain injury. But I blame his family. They KNEW he had a brain injury, they KNEW he was acting strange and committing crimes. He was behaving violently. They needed to have him committed. They should have asked a judge for power of attorney. All they had to do was call 911 say he's having a mental health crisis and they'll keep him for three days and ask the doctors at the hospital to recommend they get power of attorney so he can receive further treatment. They failed their son. Just like the parents of the werewolf killer Mr.Ballen did a video on. They failed their son too. Don't fail your family members who are in mental health crisis. Call 911 get them evaluated. Please. If you choose not to do this the blo od's on your hands when something like this happens and your mentally ill loved one hurt someone.
@@WhitneyDahlin true. and his family was bailing him out for no reason.
@@zeuxlaught2797 oh my God I forgot about that! Yeah you're exactly right that makes everything so much worse. They should have left him in jail where he couldn't hurt anyone and he would have been transferred to a mental hospital, and a judge definitely would have ordered he get inpatient treatment. They literally had to do nothing to get him treatment all they had to do was not bail him out over and over again. Man this whole situation is a tragedy. The parents had to have failed their son like ten times in a row for this tragedy to happen. And that's exactly what they did. I hope they feel guilty for it. But something tells me that their the type of people who sleep well at night and don't blame themselves at all.
@@WhitneyDahlin I would not compare this to the werewolf family. I believe his parents loved and cared for him and did what they thought was best. It is hard enough to leave your child in jail, but it was making him significantly worse. They kept trying to get him to go to more doctors to find out what was wrong with him, but he kept skipping appointments and if he did go he would not go to the follow ups. As for calling 911 to have him committed, that is often more traumatizing than it is helpful and they rarely hold you more than 24-32 hours, luckily. I think sending him back to the writer’s villa was not an irrational decision. Of course you would not believe your son would murder an old friend, especially when he has only had a few violent outbursts on strangers, not friends or family. Going to a familiar, peaceful place, where he could express his artistic passion could be thought of like a form of therapy. There are many drug rehabilitation centers similar to this. They explained the situation to Cathy before he went there and she welcomed him with open arms.
@@WhitneyDahlin ppp
I love your stuff....question: how does one ride a motorcycle ".....2 hours West of L.A."?
I worked on a trauma floor at a hospital as a care team associate. The doctors would say that sometimes a head injury can change a patients personality. So it is extremely possible that it was an undiagnosed head injury that caused this. It's so sad that we'll never know for sure and that something wasn't done sooner for him to save both their lives.
After Johnny's motorcycle accident, when he was at the acting class and began speaking in a British sounding accent makes me think of Foreign Accent Syndrome. It's a real thing, very rare, and sufferers find themselves suddenly speaking in an accent completely unlike their own. It's theorized to be the result of a brain injury. If only Johnny had gone to have an MRI, like his parents had urged.
A lady I knew spoke with an Irish accent after a stroke. Not Irish, never been to Ireland..she was Australian. I also knew of a very elderly Italian woman who woke up from a stroke speaking only Spanish, for reasons no one in the family could understand. When family were doing research for a family tree they discovered that she had been born in Argentina, but her parents had returned to live in Italy when she was 2 or 3 years old.
This is why we need to make it easier to place people like this under temporary conservatorship. It's so clear as his behaviors worsen and his crimes escalate that he does not have the mental capacity to make decisions for himself until his condition is diagnosed and stabilized.
There was a study that was done that found prison populations have three times higher rates of frontal lobe dysfunction than the general population, which would indicate brain dysfunction plays a big role in criminality. Forcing treatment instead of punishing through prison can help a good portion of criminals reform. The ones who can not reform and are dangerous due to severe brain disfunction or mental illness that doesn't respond to treatment should be put in some sort of permanent asylum where they can continue to try new treatments and be given some human dignity instead of being treated like a criminal who committed crimes by choice, while protecting society from them.
True, I was thinking of this too.
he stopped doing the accent once someone asked him why he was doing it.
A relative of mine had a serious head injury, after he came out of a coma, he spoke with an English accent for a short period, he wasn't even aware of it & everyone was surprised by it since he was never around anyone with an English accent. He has become agoraphobic ever since the injury & doesn't like to stray too far from his home. Sad to see the change especially considering that he used to be an extremely outgoing, social & popular young man, animated, full of life, funny, talkative & entertaining, a dare devil who loved an audience--after the injury, he had a problem with understanding personal space or proper, censored conversation when around others which made people feel extremely uncomfortable, some individuals even threatened him physical harm & this has led unfortunately, to his isolating himself from the world, he's become quiet & reclusive & has anxiety attacks whenever he leaves his home. Brain injuries can definitely turn a person into someone entirely different.
It's actually sad. Knowing that good people's personality can be altered by some accident
But for the grace of god, there go I
It's more common than you think, horrifying
That’s how I got schizophrenia… it’s not how people imagine it at all and misunderstood and I wouldn’t believe you if you told me the things it actually does before I had it. I learned the hard way (LITERALLY 😂) (Ik my illness isn’t a laughing matter nor any illness but having good fun with small jokes is ok and that’s coming from someone with the actual illness)
Awful..
I'm living proof. I don't know who I was before the car accident and traumatic brain injury that changed my life; I remember some things, though it feels like I'm watching a home movie of someone else's life. My family and friends had to get to know an entirely new person. Its disconcerting for me, probably quite eerie for them.
I love his videos for 1. He doesn’t use wierd Ass voices!! For 2 his voice is calming 3 he gets to the point and tells amazing true stories
I had seen one of his movies and it was called, lonely Molly. Very good movie with amazing casts too 👍👍👍👍
I didn’t even know this guy died….let alone murdered an old lady and her cat. Yikes! See this is why people need to take head injuries more seriously. I understand his parents tried to get a second opinion but man, what a tragedy.
The problem is, someone who's lost their capacity of self control or informed decision making can't be trusted to do what is needed to get diagnosis and treatment. It used to be easier for courts and relatives to force people into treatment facilities, but patient's rights activists went way too far in making it hard to do that. If they could have put him under a temporary conservatorship or something in response to his initial criminal charge, they could have saved lives. It's sick and sad. There was one study that found that prison populations have around three times higher occurrence of frontal lobe dysfunction than the general population. The frontal lobe mediates your decision making process, pretty much. A really famous case of frontal lobe disorder in criminality would be the Boston Strangler, a serial killer who went on to take part in a lot of research while in prison and donated his body to science. I once saw a fascinating documentary about it.
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@@ANPC-pi9vu You are completely right! I fell 8 yrs ago, seen lights and stars literally, puffy face had 2 black & blue eyes as well. The hospital ER doctors sent me on my way saying I was fine🙄
The next day they called and stated that I fractured my frontal lobe. I did go to a neurologist and they clamied it will heal ok, but I also had a concussion. I never went back, because at that time I didn't have insurance and no money.
Since then I've been diagnosed with Depression and Bipolar Disorder. I really think that head injury has a lot to do with my mental health! It's sad that he didn't get the right help😔 If a different doctor didn't look at my MRI or CAT scan they would've never have seen my fracture. I think due to my substance abuse history they were very biased towards me. It's like they wanted me out of the ER🤷🏻♀️ Even though I looked like I had been in a car accident or beaten up badly...
@@tiredofitall9213 I know people who have gotten into car accidents and fights and gotten diagnosed with TBI, later on they got a bipolar diagnosis as well. People who damage their brains using synthetic drugs act in a similar manner.
@@tiredofitall9213 the psychologist who diagnosed you with bipolar disorder probably made notes attributing it to a possible TBI. I work in a psych ward, when we do nursing report, they will go over each patients diagnosis ,some are unspecified meaning that we don't know yet what is going on with them until further psych observation, but they'll mention past head injuries or drugs use or whatever is helpful in understanding what could be causing their current mental crisis/behaviors
Such a sad story for everyone involved. It sounds like he was a good guy before the potential brain injury. A lot of ruined lives
I just came from jackie flores channel abt this story. But i just had to watch yours also, once i found out you covered this story too! You're just too damn good of a story teller mr ballen!😄
This is such a crazy, and almost an unbelievable story. I think that he must have been severely brain injured. Nobody in their right mind would do such horrifying things. I remember his characters from a few of his roles, and he seemed really cool. This is such a sad story.
Am I the only one who NEVER finds the secret !! You’re too captivating! Best story teller
Same! Im always so busy listening I never see it. I heard a rumor "the secret" was going away? I hope its not.
Nope lol I've never found it once even when someone points it out i can't find it
Definitely not the only one lol I never see it either.
You're not alone...I can never find it either 😄
I never see it even if ppl give the answer 😂
He probably ended up with frontal lobe damage. The frontal lobe damage can cause change in personality, difficulty in interpreting ones environment, as well as not being able to adequately assess risks and danger. He basically lost his self control.. I wish someone was able to help him because Cathy and her cat didn’t deserve to have died.
Frontal lobe damage can result in the limbic brain (AKA The Guardienne, “automatic self,” or “adaptive unconscious”) taking over. It's capable of going through the motions of everyday life, more or less, but it has no conscience. This reminds me of the case of Phineas Gage, the railroad foreman who had an iron tamping bar blown through his brain. He lived for about 12 years afterward, but those who had been close to him said he wasn't the Phineas Gage they once knew.
He should’ve had a lobotomy
@@michellemuskeyn5070 So your cure for damaged frontal lobes is more frontal lobe damage?
@@michellemuskeyn5070 that would have most likely made him comatose.
the frontal lobe processes emotion. emotion does not originate from the brain. emotions are physiological. so when the frontal lobe is damaged , control of emotion is effected.
wow, this is crazy, great video👍
From the descriptions of the neighbor of how Johnny was just blank staring and how he showed no signs of being hurt by the punches or by the chair to the head he think he picked up some dark passenger while out in the desert.
Especially compelling for this theory is the neighbors description of how Johnny jumped over those high walls.
Can we talk about how much of a legend dan is saving the painter
He was an actual hero though i'm sure most would act the same given the poor painters situation
Dan is Chad's older brother, lol.
Can you just leave a comment without being such a follower and saying " can we talk about how much " ??
Can we talk about how much of a loser w no life that you are just trying to get " likes " that you have to copy others that do this??? Can we ??
Why so whiny?
And his wife
That's terrifying to think that a brain injury could alter your character that much. That is just such a terrible thought and I feel so bad for him and everyone else involved.
I think it's the TYPE of brain injury plus acting plus success stress that truly caused the character change and idk if I would call his character changed so much as scrambled
Not sure if head injury did this. Schizophrenia and bipolar conditions often don't show up until adulthood. If he had taken his meds he might still be alive and so would be his victim.
My husband suffered a TBI. I barely recognized him for years. We were fortunate enough that I was able to provide him with a few years of rest (he didn’t have to work or overly stress himself) so that he was able to heal. But it’s only been the last year I have finally started to see the man I married. That means I took over three years. And I also want to note I spent time in college studying brain injuries-this is really common, and the tests don’t have ways of looking at parts of the brain that change/effect personality. It’s all very tragic and if anything, I am surprised that Johnny couldn’t find a better specialist living in Hollywood
It’s scary to me bc a lot of times the injured doesn’t notice or feel the changes everyone else is seeing so they think everyone is out to get them or crazy, and it usually takes something drastic for them to see it. I feel like he was failed by the medical and juridical system, they had many opportunities to get him diagnosed whatever the outcome was. Could’ve prevented such a tragedy.
Brain injury alters a person's personality by 180 degrees.
OMG I finally found out what this "secret" is you speak of. I had to rewind a few times to catch that time that person posted. Lol
When you were describing the writer's Villa i was imagining what it'd be like to go there and work on my creative endeavors. Was thinking i'd look into it. Then i watched the rest of the video. Dang man.
That irony in this story is truly heartbreaking. Johnny disliked violence to the point he needed to get off Son of Anarchy for his own good. Only to get in a motorcycle accident and end up doing the what he left the show for, except obviously for real.
Head injuries are really something else.. in some stories, people turn from an average person to a genius at something. Or from a kind person into something fearsome. I find it interested, but frightening, how even a single well placed punch could change someone’s personality like that.
Yea, so true. I am starting to look at concussions more and more serious now.
obviously he was probably having flash backs to his set on SOA
Yeah there was so many Victims in this story Johnny was also one of them when he had that accident he was never Johnny. If that accident never happened things could have been different.
@@acrock21 that's what I've been saying me and my friend got I to an conversation about this mainly cause half Sack was my favorite character besides Jax and Opie
@@jokerspudding1192 He probably hit his head so hard that it damaged his memory... and since he had worked so hard on his character and given it so much emotion... his brain grabbed onto the memory of his character and his emotion from the show. He literally became what he hated. That doesnt change that he did what he did.
That frontal lobe damage really is crazy!! I first heard about how frontal lobe damage can change your personality and can essentially make you a completely different person in the book ‘The chimp paradox’ and it’s mental how this was not picked up by a medical professional!
Brilliant podcast mrballen
Head injuries are no joke, they can cause serious issues. The hospital should’ve kept him in for observation. There’s been cases where folk have thought they’ve been attacked, had their home broken into, think they’re talking to people in front of them when none of these things have happened, but their head injury has messed them up and they’re convince these are really happening. So if you ever hurt your head, make sure they properly check you over, because it can get worse and worse.
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It’s recommended if you sustain a hit to the head that knocks you out, even for a short time, you should get a ct scan to rule out a bleed.
Yes defined take a head injury seriously
honestly sounds more like undiagnosed schizophrenia than a head injury to me..
@@Gino_567 If you ever met anyone with a traumatic brain injury, you might change your mind about that. You'd be surprised how it can completely change someone's personality.
If you hit your head so hard that you start speaking in a British accent, you know that it's probably best to see a doctor
Buncha angry Brits
And that's a little known sign of a stroke too
@@capital_beaz4725 If you have a problem with abnormal personalities and their superficial affectations, you are a weapon of a particular cult. Society is much more harmful than the so-called problems it perceives.
If a patient starts speaking with a different accent after an injury to the head, it’s a strong possibility that they have developed a case of Foreign Accent Syndrome.
Right... only Madonna can speak in a British accent...lol
Wow I live in Ventura California I never heard that story before thank you a for sharing
OMG such a heart breaking story 😢 poor Kathy and her cat, poor Johnny and his family.. awful all round. I actually thought of him recently, remembered seeing him in a movie and wondering whatever happened to him but never got around to googling it.. happened to click on this video by chance..