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Originally Posted by greyshep
Wow. I cannot believe I just read that.
So you're telling us that we are all ticking time bombs and will lash out violently if all of a sudden a voice starts telling us to knife the guy next to us?
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I'm saying that for the most part, Bill and Li were exactly like you and me before their schizophrenic episodes and that no one is "immune". So yes. You can look at certain demographics to find who may be statistically more likely, but for for schizophrenia you're looking at first symptoms occurring generally between 10 and 40 years of age. To mistakenly believe that you are somehow immune to a mental illness or psychosis would mean you are unaware and stigmatizing mental illness as something that doesn't happen to "normal" people like you and Swarly.
That idea is actually dangerous because if someone were to start hearing voices, experiencing hallucinations or generally having something weird happen to them, instead of getting the proper help they don't want to be seen as "crazy" and avoid discussing it and trying to hide it. That's when, I would argue, someone does become a "ticking time bomb." But with Bill, him acknowledging that he can't say for certain what will happen in the future is less dangerous than him assuming he is 100% cured and would never suffer another episode...that's when you have people go off medication...