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.
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.