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Authored by: artp on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 01:51 PM EST |
I didn't mean to give that impression. Mental illness is, in
some cases, forever. And I have three bipolar people in my
house, so I have first-hand knowledge of what mental illness
is like. It doesn't make me an expert, it just provides me
with lots of stories. I won't tell you the one about me and
my schizophrenic sister-in-law on Thanksgiving. I'm still a
little embarrassed about that one. :-(
I also deal with a lot of mental illness in my volunteer
work.
What "being nice" does, though, is keep them from being
isolated. It keeps them connected with the community. And it
lets people become aware of any changes that are happening
with them. Isolation lets things grow until they explode.
We keep journals in my house on moods and activity levels
and all sorts of things. Sometimes small changes can be
significant to a doctor that don't mean much to me.
But I spoke more from an old-fashioned perspective: take
care of your own. And my own covers a pretty broad range. If
the family or neighbors of that young man knew him better,
there -might- have been an opportunity to intervene. With
today's mental health treatment climate, I'm not sure if
that would have happened.
There are no easy answers to this one. But knee-jerk laws
will definitely not make it any better.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 02:21 PM EST |
Mental illness is treatable contrary to what law and you seems to think.
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