all the reports of his past suggest schizophrenia.
If you are treating a schizo you dont “push meds” - you prescribe them, monitor his mental state via med checks, and alert someone if he is not taking them and you believe he is a danger to himself or others. The bar for determining this to a legal standard of involuntary commitment is suprisingly high if the patient hides his thoughts and behaviors.
He was researching abnormal psych even when he was in high school and earning scholarships and grants for his brilliance.
I have heard little about the fact he was adopted and what his family medical history may have been as far as inherited insanity, and what his adoptive parents knew or were told about it
with HIPPA it is surprising not that his records are sealed, but that we the public know so much
The psychiatric profession is not without flaws and there are legitimate issues with overprescription of antidepressants, anxiety meds, etc. that may or may not work....
But a lot of people have bought the whole Scientologist “psychiatry is the root of all evil, all psychiatric meds make things worse” perspective.
There’s also general misundestanding of schizophrenia as you note and, that it is obvious that in general medications help most schizophrenics greatly.
Please provide the citations.