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MoonRiver

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26. I'm so sorry you and your family went through all this.

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 08:36 PM

Nov 2013

Mental illness, more than almost any other illness imo, can totally destroy families. Even though today there are meds that control the delusions, many patients won't take them voluntarily, because the drugs make them feel like zombies. And of course when they are on the meds they seem to be just fine, psychologically speaking. The catch 22 that patients don't get is once off the meds all hell breaks loose again. Anyway, just wanted to give you a for all you and yours have endured.

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Police affidavit offers chilling details of teacher's slaying [View all] BainsBane Nov 2013 OP

That's just bizarre. I smell an undiagnosed paranoid schizpohrenic.......... kestrel91316 Nov 2013 #1

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We have dozens in our garage. My husband used to pick them up at Ace and ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #3

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True. I wonder if it wasn't something he could have grabbed from a maintenance cart or something. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #6

Reports say he got it from the art classroom. Nt hack89 Nov 2013 #9

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What on earth does that have to do with whether or not he's schizophrenic???? kestrel91316 Nov 2013 #13

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I suspect you are wrong. uppityperson Nov 2013 #17

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It is bizarre. They diagnose kids usually, or has that changed? ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #4

He had recently moved to that school distrction BainsBane Nov 2013 #7

and the teen years are when it usually has first onset.... bettyellen Nov 2013 #11

They can come prepared also, MoonRiver Nov 2013 #8

fourteen is when the voices started with my brother, but he had smaller problems for years before. bettyellen Nov 2013 #12

Did he have childhood schizophrenia? MoonRiver Nov 2013 #19

thanks- I don't think they made a distinction back then - childhood schizophrenic vs adult onset ? bettyellen Nov 2013 #25

I'm so sorry you and your family went through all this. MoonRiver Nov 2013 #26

Thank you, it was horrible for my Mom. She was blamed for it, of course, and it really knocked bettyellen Nov 2013 #28

Oh my gosh, you all have been through so much. MoonRiver Nov 2013 #29

I am pretty much the only one who is well, alive and not an alcoholic. bettyellen Nov 2013 #30

No problem betty allen! MoonRiver Nov 2013 #31

Can we stop shaming the mentally ill and saying all horrific crimes are done by them? Kurska Nov 2013 #14

I think when something so horrific like this happens Blue_Roses Nov 2013 #16

If it was a logical way of thinking it wouldn't bother me as much Kurska Nov 2013 #20

true and it could be the same with Blue_Roses Nov 2013 #23

Very much so, our society very heavily stigmatizes any kind of mental healthcare Kurska Nov 2013 #24

I don't think it's about understanding mythology Nov 2013 #21

good point... Blue_Roses Nov 2013 #22

I think that she guessed schizophrenia because of the "talking to themselves" part, I have to say bettyellen Nov 2013 #27