Sad thing is, schizo’s are among those who need medication the most but are least likely to take medication because they believe (paranoia) that people are trying to kill them with poison. One lady lined her stove top burners with foil to keep ‘them’ (those out to kill her) from listening in. She’d be fine if she took meds (her symptoms were well controlled in the hospital) but when she gets out of the hospital, she stops taking them. Sometimes it’s well meaning friends and family who convince schizo’s to stop taking the medicine!
Same with my friend - she wouldn’t take medication and feared the reason she was prescribed them was evil. Put these people in confinement and give them meds and some are ‘normal’ enough to release. They exit the hospital praising their return to health and vowing never to go off their meds..where they stop taking their meds because of latent fear or the desire to be ‘normal’ along with the belief they don’t need the drugs. It’s sad really - contrast the woman wrapping her electric burners with foil to the way she acts when medicated (i.e., quite normal) and yet the sufferers of that disease frequently stop meds because they feel normal when they take it and don’t like the side effects. (who likes side effects from drugs)
I know big pharma is a problem. I know our country over presecribes, but I’ve sat across a kitchen table from people who need medication and I never felt like ridiculing them or hating their physicians.
Incarcerating the severely ill probably netted some people who didn’t belong in there and that is a crime (I wouldn’t like it). But emptying the mental hospitals for ‘humanitarian’ reasons often transferred the severely mentally ill to the streets and later, to prisons.
I never suggested hating anyone. BTW, some comments here were made in obvious jest on my part. Did you not know that? For the record, it's only Holmes fault. Based on evidence, no one else is to blame. Hope this clarification helps.
Oh and sorry, I missed ur reply earlier, got sidetracked..
Take care.