Yeah it's very much just a label to impose stricter conditions on him at a moment's notice. Not only that, he has to travel with an adult if he's leaving the Edmonton area, and he will be transitioned to a group home within the next year. He has also been having unsupervised time already on the Alberta Hospital grounds.
He will never fully be well, but with medication, management, and supervision he should be OK.
Think about all the folks walking our streets in Alberta with undiagnosed schizophrenia. de Grood is one of the few who are being put through the system and managed by some of Alberta's best physicians and psychiatrists. This process is very similar to that of Vincent Li and the Greyhound Bus incident. Unsupervised visits, group homes, and then eventually an absolute discharge.
I'm probably one of the few that believe schizophrenia creates victims on both sides. But it can be managed, to varying degrees.
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