The word “crisis” is way overused, but in the case of severe mental illness, it is no exaggeration. From Beth Brelje at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
“I’m afraid to die.” “What happens to my son when I die?” Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) Executive Director Lisa Dailey says she will never forget that testimony from a Virginia mother in her 80s who had spent much of her life caring for her son, now in his 50s, with severe mental illness.
He was unstable, but she couldn’t get him into treatment because he didn’t think anything was wrong with him.
“The difference between a person with a heart attack and a person who has psychosis is that a person with a heart attack is willing to receive care, and they want the care,” Ms. Dailey told The Epoch Times. “The person in psychosis might be actively fighting against it. They might have to be tied down to receive care, and that is perceived differently by the medical system.
“There doesn’t seem to be a full acknowledgment on the part of the medical system that a person who is refusing care may not have the capacity to be refusing care.”
I have often wondered how much mental and physical illness would exist if people and animals were not routinely injected with diseases and toxic chemicals from the day of birth.