No one cares about "the children."
July 12, 2015 10:39 AM Subscribe
"Every time schizophrenia makes the news, I cringe. The experts are trotted out to speak about how seldom persons suffering from schizophrenia actually engage in violent acts — especially if they are under proper care. Others discuss the rights of schizophrenics. What they seem to ignore is that nothing really requires persons with schizophrenia to stay in treatment, to consistently take medication that keeps their symptoms at bay, even when they have dependent children in their care."
"I’ll spare you the dirty details of growing up with an unmedicated, paranoid schizophrenic mother who views you as the proxy for all that is out to get her. It wasn’t pretty. Her emotional disconnection from her acts. Her deterioration into an unkempt, almost bestial state. The only thing that ended her run was when she went too far and harassed the neighbors to the point where the police intervened. The day she was taken by the police (I was 15, and just home from school; my sister was 5; Dad was out of town on business) I exhaled for the first time in five years. She was gone, in the state mental hospital. Thank God.
Imagine my surprise when two days later she came home. Drugged to the max on Thorazine, a blob in the back bedroom. Declawed, defanged."
"I’ll spare you the dirty details of growing up with an unmedicated, paranoid schizophrenic mother who views you as the proxy for all that is out to get her. It wasn’t pretty. Her emotional disconnection from her acts. Her deterioration into an unkempt, almost bestial state. The only thing that ended her run was when she went too far and harassed the neighbors to the point where the police intervened. The day she was taken by the police (I was 15, and just home from school; my sister was 5; Dad was out of town on business) I exhaled for the first time in five years. She was gone, in the state mental hospital. Thank God.
Imagine my surprise when two days later she came home. Drugged to the max on Thorazine, a blob in the back bedroom. Declawed, defanged."
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a really short op-ed with not enough context to be anything other than a fight-starter, sorry. -- restless_nomad
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