It is. Untreated schizophrenia can ruin people’s lives easily, it’s easy to become homeless, addicted to drugs, lose a job, be taken in by a cult or just straight up taken advantage of.
personal anecdote
But it’s also sad, even with support they can still just refuse treatment if they’re not a threat to themselves or others. My mum isn’t violent (except a couple of times), she’s just utterly lost in her delusion. A special kind of delusion that reinforces her idea that getting help will actually hinder her abilities: she believes she’s psychic and communicate with spirits and angels, she also believes she can see evil spirits and demons. On medication she cannot see or hear anything, so she thinks the meds are blocking her psychic abilities, so in order to stop the evil American psychics from psychically assaulting her, she has to be able to perceive the threat so no meds.
Can’t reason someone out of an idea they didn’t reason themself into.
It is. Untreated schizophrenia can ruin people’s lives easily, it’s easy to become homeless, addicted to drugs, lose a job, be taken in by a cult or just straight up taken advantage of.
personal anecdote
But it’s also sad, even with support they can still just refuse treatment if they’re not a threat to themselves or others. My mum isn’t violent (except a couple of times), she’s just utterly lost in her delusion. A special kind of delusion that reinforces her idea that getting help will actually hinder her abilities: she believes she’s psychic and communicate with spirits and angels, she also believes she can see evil spirits and demons. On medication she cannot see or hear anything, so she thinks the meds are blocking her psychic abilities, so in order to stop the evil American psychics from psychically assaulting her, she has to be able to perceive the threat so no meds.
Can’t reason someone out of an idea they didn’t reason themself into.
so many many hugs for you all
I can’t see much but suffering for every one involved