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How would anyone know?

Many people who are schizophrenic are bright and will hide their *voices* from the world. Sociopaths/psychopaths are also often brilliant and know how to present themselves as the *nice* person.

It isn’t privacy that is the problem, IMO. It is just that the human psyche can take many twists and turns and can also hide behind an acceptable exterior. There are documented cases of people who have committed terrible acts, never been caught, have status in society and are only finally known after years of getting away with things.

I have no idea how we get inside someones head, let alone prevent conditions that are often genetic, often don’t manifest until puberty or beyond and so, are generally unknown until that person breaks and commits some horrendous act.

I fear that any attempt to mandate identification of illness would result in the forced commitment of people who are simply eccentric or who manifest non-PC behavior. I certainly do not want to see attempts at identifying *pre-criminals* or any increase in the drugging of people who perhaps are simply creative and bored within the educational institutions. And if they are identified, what then? We do not now have the capacity to detain and medicate everyone whom we already know are dangerous. Within medical instituions and prisons, people have the right to refuse medication. Again, we have known instances of psychopaths who refuse meds and then kill someone inside the facility.

Be situationally aware and trust your gut with anyone in this world. Even then, most of us cannot identify someone prior to catching them in the act, IMO.