[wideawake]

They did indeed know that he was insane. They knew that he frightened his classmates so much he was expelled from community college. They knew he was walking around unmedicated. No one knew better than they did how detached he was from reality. But the bureaucrat and the house husband didn’t bother to raise the alarm.

[CaptainK]

Do we know for sure that he wasn’t medicated?

[silverleaf]

Put yourselves in their shoes and “raise the alarm”

Go ahead. Do some real honest research about what it takes for a parent to get a mentally ill teenager - much less and adult child over 18- hospitalized or even outpatient treated without their cooperation, without them actually having harmed anyone or threatening to harm themselves.

Go ahead. Figure out how to FORCE a teenager or young adult who does not think he is sick, to take psych meds.

Walk in those shoes.

Then come back and tell us about how the entire psychiatric system, healthcare, justice, social work and legal systems are stacked against you. And tell me how social you want to be with the neighbors while for 10 years, you live in a hopeless hell on earth while your only child disappears leaving a crazed shell of a human in his place.

[LyinLibs]

“No one knew better than they did how detached he was from reality. But the bureaucrat and the house husband didn’t bother to raise the alarm.”

That’s b/c reality doesn’t apply to leftists. Leftists do whatever they want and ignore gravity, cause and effect, psychology.... b/c they’re “smart.”

[Chickensoup]

They knew that he frightened his classmates so much he was expelled from community college. They knew he was walking around unmedicated. No one knew better than they did how detached he was from reality. But the bureaucrat and the house husband didn't’t bother to raise the alarm.

First, they may have never known their son was expelled. Colleges do not send home report cards or other information on ADULTS. The kid was an adult, legally.

Second, if their son was not causing an imminent danger to himself, a imminent danger to others or was grossly unable to care for himself (picture walking naked in snowstorm) he would have been untouchable under most leftist mental health laws. If he had medications prescribed and was not taking them, they could take him to the ER or to the police. But no one can make a mentally ill person take meds except in certain circumstances.