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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Because you don't share my views on the subject doesn't mean I'm not educated. I most likely have far more real life experience on the subject than you do so how about you stop being a condescending pr***.
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I’m all good with having differing views, but I happen to not only disagree with your views, but actually find them extremely offensive towards those suffering from schizophrenia.
FWIW, my mother suffers from schizophrenia (and at age 30 I am her legal guardian), and although she’s not dangerous, she hoarded all of her life to the point that she no longer had access to toilets in her house, and deficated in buckets all over her house when she was finally found and brought in. It’s as horrifying as it sounds.
She hoarded and spent so much money that the house she received (paid in full) in her divorce settlement that she ended up putting so many mortgages on it to keep buying stuff to the point she lost most of her equity in it. She fell for every mail scam you can think of, and racked of thousands of dollars in crazy credit card debts that she should have never been able to qualify for. Constantly being taken advantage of.
At one point she owned two dogs, three cats, and 12 birds that crapped and pissed everywhere and were obviously not house trained. They all died way too young.
She was legally allowed to drive up until pretty recently, and was horrifying to watch in action.
She has the belief that my brother was married to a girl named “Macy” (he’s not married), and my father murdered her, and the golden girls, and is being put to death any day now. She also believes she’s a typewriter away from being gainfully employed as a legal assistant.
She also believes that her doctor at the mental hospital was raping her repeatedly and flaunted herself as a “young white girl” that all of the Asian doctors wanted a piece of.
When I cross the street next to her she insists on holding my hands to protect me, as in her mind, I am still a young 5 year old, the time that she still remembers before her schizophrenia infected her. She believes my brother will never get married or attract a female because he doesn’t eat brocolli.
She used to have a machete she kept for protection, and was paranoid that me and other family members were coming to kill her. She believes that we have died and are in fact reincarnated versions of ourselves from hell. This is the paranoid logic that dominates their thinking patterns.
These people are incapable of living in reality. They have no concept of what normal is.
So rather than try to compare their actions on any kind of similar plane to actual cold blooded killers, I actually suggest you educate yourself. You say you have life experience in this, but your complete lack of empathy for these victims does not illustrate that I’m any way to me.
If that’s too condescending for you, well, I should rise above that, but your words have been triggering to read for me, someone that is really close to the situation, and I certainly would be surprised if you have been affected by this as much as I have.
As for DeGrood. He has my sympathy. As do his victims. This is a case of the lack of education in our society about mental illness, and the people around him capable of identifying the clues were unfortunately not fast enough. It’s extremely sad. IMO, as hard as it is to say, I think the victims should be more concerned about trying to find the next de grood, then de grood himself. The statistics show now that he is in the system has a lower chance of reoffending than you or I. Of course they need strict checks and balances on him, because his illness does make him a risk of not properly cared for. But I would like to see more efforts made to educate people in our community how this disease works, and the signs of what to look for. It’s hard when it’s someone close to you, that you want to think the best of. That would be my focus, and the best way to prevent the next unfortunate massacre, by increasing awareness and being able to get at risk people help early on in the process, no different than the best practices of saving cancer victims.... not wait until it’s too late.
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