[TigersEye]

Oh, but it would have prevented this tragedy. The real point is that a Parent that was paying attention all the child's life would not have let this illness progress unchecked to this sad circumstance.

No, it would not have prevented anything. Schizophrenia occurs in ordinary people in their late teens and early twenties. Nothing his parents did before that could have changed it or anticipated it. Read some of the posts here describing it. It is very difficult for a parent to spot and almost impossible for anyone to force a schizophrenic to accept treatment. That is the way it is, period.

[higgmeister]

Heavens, what am I talking about!? Mental Illness has never existed in my family other than a little end of life dementia.

I'll yield to obvious experts that profess to understand the mysterious workings of the human mind.

I'm glad you have a good handle on all these nuts that nobody will ever crack!

I'll remember that the next time I see the bag lady pushing her cart along the street and talking to the lampposts. She will always be beyond your help, so who cares!

[bannie]

To FORCE a schizophrenic includes a literal use of the word, “force”—and that force—in my experience—comes down to being physical. They live in another world, totally.