Released Mental Health Records Provide Details of Cho's Sessions

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Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho's mental health records released Wednesday by the university depict a young man in crisis who seemed to learn to mislead doctors and counselors trying to help him.

The records -- missing since 2006 and recovered last month -- show that in a 15-day period between Cho's first triage appointment at Cook Counseling Center on Nov. 30, 2005, and his discharge from what is now called Carilion Clinic Saint Albans Hospital on Dec. 14, his diagnosis changed drastically.

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Released Mental Health Records Provide Details of Cho's Sessions

The image of Cho painted by the documents swings wildly from a young man suffering with ongoing depression and isolation, to a mentally ill psychiatric patient deemed "an imminent danger," to a college student with no psychiatric history suffering from "acculturation issues" and "stress o...

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