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<blockquote data-quote="ParatusForty-Six" data-source="post: 3267387" data-attributes="member: 40979"><p>It&#039;s been said that the death of institutionalized commitment was the beginning of the true mental health emergency in the US. People who require daily medication, treatment, and attention aren&#039;t getting it from their unqualified family members who, honestly, have their own lives to live. They just aren&#039;t cut out for being constant psychiatric caregivers. So, you have people who are self-regulating the intake of required meds, aren&#039;t getting to the kind of counseling which may help them, and they end up in a cycle like you described where, eventually, they end up in front of a man with a gun looking at a man with a gun, knife, or otherwise putting innocents in harm&#039;s way in any number of ways, and they end up dead...or they get into a family member&#039;s lawfully owned guns and go shoot up a school then kill themselves. Now you&#039;ve got a family who&#039;s lost a loved one, a cop who&#039;s had to take another person&#039;s life and/or a school full of dead kids, and a society struggling to make sense of something which makes no sense whatsoever.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ParatusForty-Six, post: 3267387, member: 40979"] It's been said that the death of institutionalized commitment was the beginning of the true mental health emergency in the US. People who require daily medication, treatment, and attention aren't getting it from their unqualified family members who, honestly, have their own lives to live. They just aren't cut out for being constant psychiatric caregivers. So, you have people who are self-regulating the intake of required meds, aren't getting to the kind of counseling which may help them, and they end up in a cycle like you described where, eventually, they end up in front of a man with a gun looking at a man with a gun, knife, or otherwise putting innocents in harm's way in any number of ways, and they end up dead...or they get into a family member's lawfully owned guns and go shoot up a school then kill themselves. Now you've got a family who's lost a loved one, a cop who's had to take another person's life and/or a school full of dead kids, and a society struggling to make sense of something which makes no sense whatsoever. [/QUOTE]

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