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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
Just for the record, people with mental illness are no more likely than any other segment of the population to commit a crime or become violent. Depression, Anxiety, ADD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress, and most Schizophrenics are not violent. Paranoid schizophrenics, (like Li and the individual who stabbed me), should be closely monitored and kept in institutions if they do not comply with taking medication.
This may be a difficult task, but look at the consequences if they slip through the cracks. I was lucky I only received a few stitches. Mr McKay was not so lucky. You can't put a price on a loss of a life.
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I agree. But I also believe we need changes in the Mental Health Act that would facilitate these type of actions. Talk to the families who have tried to have their loved ones committed to any type of facility so they could receive the proper treatment and care. I am not sure of all the ins and outs but I think you can only keep an individual for something like 48 hours if they do not wish to be there? Don't quote me but I know it is pretty well impossible to commit someone with mental illness to get the help and treatment they require.
Li fell through the cracks. His wife alerted various people about his mental instability, he had been in police custody just a few days before the bus accident. But, he was never assessed, treated, whatever. He never got into the system.
And there in lies the problem. How can we get people with mental problems into the system? Yeah, some are there. Many are not and are on the streets or elsewhere, some are ticking time bombs.