For some of you in here stating that things will be fine if he just takes his medications....well, it's not that simple. I administer these medications daily to people with schizophrenia/bipolar/schizo-affective disorder and sorry to burst the bubble but most of those medications are a joke. They will turn a lot of people into zombies so they lack motivation to even take care of their own hygiene and they'll give you so may side affects that people would be too sedated to care about much of anything.
People don't realize those medications basically just mask the real problems which is usually trauma of some sort and most of it came when people were children. People hear schizophrenia these days and think of some psychotic monster but all schizophrenia really means broken down in basic terms is "a part of your brain isn't functioning like it should be". There are negative symptoms, positive symptoms and many factors determine people's recovery such as family support, diet, exercise, finances spirituality etc.
So I didn't add much to the actual topic of the thread but I am one of the people who are everywhere in your community helping the sickest of the sick and I just had to clarify that it takes a lot more support than Big Pharma's huge cash cow of sedating cocktails.
Good luck to all of the people involved in this unfortunate incident. Hopefully they are finding more peace with each passing day.
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