Gunman Raoul Moat asked for psychiatric help
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It is reported, (from tapes obtained by ITV news) Raoul Moat asked social services about psychiatric help for his emotional state. From the article, it sounds like the tapes were recordings related to checking if it was safe for Moats' children to live/visit him (the tapes date from July 2009 to April 2010).
"In one conversation he said: "I'm quite emotionally unstable you know, I get myself over-the-top happy sometimes. And I have my bad days, you know.
"The more you block things out, the more numb you become in the heart you know. You get to a point where happiness to you is just like, you know, neither here nor there."
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In one recording - made by Moat in August 2009 during a meeting with a social worker - the gunman said: "I would like to have a psychiatrist, psychologist, have a word with me regularly, on a regular basis, to see if there's somewhere underlying like where I have problem that I haven't seen."-BBC.
After being released from prison Raoul Moat killed one person and attempted to kill two other people leaving them badly injured. He was then on the run from police which ended after a 6 hour stand off where Moat shot himself.
"In one conversation he said: "I'm quite emotionally unstable you know, I get myself over-the-top happy sometimes. And I have my bad days, you know.
"The more you block things out, the more numb you become in the heart you know. You get to a point where happiness to you is just like, you know, neither here nor there."
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In one recording - made by Moat in August 2009 during a meeting with a social worker - the gunman said: "I would like to have a psychiatrist, psychologist, have a word with me regularly, on a regular basis, to see if there's somewhere underlying like where I have problem that I haven't seen."-BBC.
After being released from prison Raoul Moat killed one person and attempted to kill two other people leaving them badly injured. He was then on the run from police which ended after a 6 hour stand off where Moat shot himself.
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