Posted on 01/12/2022 4:13:55 PM PST by simpson96
Unfortunately, while the medication controls their delusions (for lack of a better word), it reduces their cognitive abilities.
My best friend's brother developed schizophrenia at around 30 years old. A Vietnam vet, graduate of the University of Michigan, and a highly motivated individual. He lost his job, his wife, his home and ended up living on a beach in northern Michigan. Brother could do nothing to help him since he wasn't declared a threat to anyone or himself. Winter finally set in and he was still on the beach, the local judge, a long time friend of the family, was able to authorize Skip to be hospitalized.
Long story short, another friend who was head of the housing authority was able to get him an apartment and a job bagging groceries. After he lost that job, another friend who had a real estate office hired Skip to answer phones.
When Skip was on his meds, he was stable but could only handle menial jobs. But once he stopped taking them, the delusions came back.
I live in S.E. Michigan and I'll never forget the time I got a phone call at work on a Thursday from Skip, who lived 280 miles north, telling me he had an appointment with the French embassy on Friday morning and if he could spend Thursday night at my place. I said sure then immediately called his brother who lived down here also and Jack agreed to come to my house that evening.
Sure enough, Skip showed up and the three of us had a couple beers and a pizza. Friday morning came and I had to leave for work and when I got home that day, Skip was gone.
Schizophrenia is a horrible illness, not only for the affected but their families as well.
Skip died about 15 years ago from cancer. It started as a tumor on his leg and he refused medical treatment because he thought the doctors were going to kill him.
Sadly, that story is all too common.
I’m from Fla. Don’t do that.
Ditto. Jokes about this are shallow.
I was raised in Ft. Lauderdale too. Grad Plantation High. We came from Clewiston in 1961. Lived in Broadview Park. The Rock pit, or one of them were a stone's throw away.
Lived in and on the 84 canal. (And Lake Okeechobee) Swimming, fishing and crabbing with the gators.
Until Uncle Sam called. Ever hunt gators?
5.56mm
Born in 52.
Went to northeast high in Oakland park.
Lived off of prospect Rd (44th st) and NW 16th ave.
(Twin Lakes, also in Oakland park)
The Rockpit was behind our home.
At that time we were the furthest home west.
We used to go to Oakland Park to get in trouble.
8^)
5.56mm
+1 and not only is it to our moral detriment, it is to our societal detriment as mentally ill people are left to their own devices.
Yes, absolutely.
Disowning a family member with schizophrenia is no different than throwing a retarded or crippled sibling out into the snow. No different.
At least if somebody is in a wheelchair, they get sympathy. Our mentally ill, in too many cases, get only ridicule and rejection.
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I absolutely agree.
Big difference though. Families often cannot on their own care for severely mentally ill. The big state mental hospitals were an attempt at compassion and to prevent the mentally ill from being locked in basements, attics and sheds or killed.
Nothing is harder to deal with than an out of control, no judgment, sometimes violent, often unmedicated, adult.
And leftist laws have made it difficult to have any ability to care for them.
the family frequently has no control
It’s tragic in so many directions.
Often it ends during a psychotic break when a loving family member calls 911.
The police arrive, and give an order, guns drawn, like, “Drop the screwdriver!”
and gets a psychotic lunge forward instead.
BANG.
Thank God that LE is getting much better training on dealing with folks having “a psychotic episode.”
The good local cops are real heroes. They are cops, social workers, mental health workers, they wear all the hats and mostly just get abuse.
agreed.
we did some police department training years ago.
and our sheriff’s office is second to none in managing psychotically mentally ill.
however. they are out there in droves because we have failed them and the leftists won again.
Yeah. Our downtown homeless are just open air asylums.
And we dare to hold ourselves superior to our forefathers who at least took care of them, even before modern anypsychotics.
The dirty secret is that ‘education’ was given the money earmarked for mental health. Education cronies/grifters/communists took the money away from healthcare.
Perfect! They were in mental health, but as the money went ot education they moved over to there.
Another funny, but true meme on education! It’s funny and I’d laugh, but I have grandchildren in public schools so it’s either laugh or cry.
Either way, I fear for the future of our children and America!
I let Daisy Cat out in her private, though not fenced, yard every day in the summer. And I go with her. Always bring my broom. She knows that I will chase her with it if she goes “off campus.”
My vet says it’s good for kitties to go outside in the sunshine and eat grass. Of course, I buy cat grass for her in the winter. All the stores have it, call it “wheat grass.” Organic is best.
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