Reblogging this answer because I like it a lot. Despite I don't like Mega Killers, your explanation of their behaviour is more than correct and realistic. They clearly are not evil for the sake of being evil, even if the show pushes hard into only showing this aspect while ignoring their past. We know Fred has been recently released from a juvenile correctional facility and we have lots of scientific data that show a long-standing connection between youth who commit crimes and mental health concerns. This study Critical Factors in Mental Health Programming For Juveniles in Corrections Facilities shows this clearly: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-45648-010.pdf
Let's always remember that mental health is the individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. We know that teenagers face major physical, social, and emotional changes that can increase stress and create challenges for their well-being. Research shows that early mental health support helps prevent long-term problems and improves development, and all members of Mega Killers didn't have this support and it's quite clear to my eyes all of them faced different problems and were exposed to risk factors that jeopardised their well-being.
Adolescence is a critical and unique phase of development in psychological growth. Children having mental health problems can have adverse outcomes, such as poor school performance, social difficulties, substance abuse, and poor physical health. Let's remember that Jeremy showed some of these (poor school performance, disruptive behaviours, etc.) and his cousin even abused drugs. More than half of mental health conditions start before a child reaches 20 years of age, with onset occurring in adolescence much more frequently than it does in early childhood or adulthood. However, pre-school children with early mental health problems are increasing in prevalence in the 21st century. I suggest this study published on Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 62 (4): 372–381 doi:10.1111/jcpp.13261 the title is:
Research review: A meta-analysis of the international prevalence and comorbidity of mental disorders in children between 1 and 7 years.
here the PDF, so you can read it easily:
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jcpp.13261?download=true
Risk factors and causes are multifaceted and touch many aspects from biological, disability, stress, environmental factors, poverty, diet and nutrition to demographic and even unhappy marriage and divorce. Unhappily married couples suffer 3–25 times the risk of developing clinical depression, leading to divorce, and we know that this not only affects the mental health of both the parents, but also the children of a separated home. Children of divorced parents engage in early sexual behavior, academic difficulties, substance abuse, depressive moods, and an increased chance of living in poverty due to family instability.
So it's pretty clear that all these members have a mix of family, environmental, economical factors and possibly some of them even biological factors that made them the way they are. Too bad the show never showed this unlike Victoire in which we have a glimpse of her relationship and the dynamics with her father.
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