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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
Yeah. It's clear that that guy should be at a bare minimum medicated, if not in a psych ward.
There was this schizophrenic kid who lived down the street from where I live now... Used to tear around shrieking - He was a 5' 6" angry teenager - I was worried that he would just snap and hit someone one day. What's tragic is that, given our poor social system, what would a lower income family do with a kid like that? (I live in a fairly poor neighborhood) Can't necessarily afford hospital care OR medication... What do you do with your mentally ill if you can't afford to take care of them? Made me a bit sad.
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That's actually a big problem. It's partially because people don't recognize mental illness as it is, an illness. We can see that shit on certain kinds of brain scans now. We can see OCD and BiPolar disorder I know.
When you're mentally ill, health insurance is a nightmare in the US. I know personally. I had to go on disability just to have health insurance, so I could take medication and go to the damn doctor.
What's really fucked up is that there is a great way to treat OCD. It's called like deep brain stimulation, but the FDA will only approve it for people with Parkinsons disorder. If it makes people well, why not approve it? OCD is a bitch.