Comments on: Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia… http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/ All Mickey, All the Time Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:21:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: JoAnn Mayo http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-61155 JoAnn Mayo Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:18:09 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-61155 I left out a few words in the first sentenc. I am a family member of __SOMEONE who has been diagnosed with CSP. I left out a few words in the first sentenc. I am a family member of __SOMEONE who has been diagnosed with CSP.

]]> By: JoAnn Mayo http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-61154 JoAnn Mayo Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:15:46 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-61154 I am a family member who has been diagnosed with CPS. She is my 32 year old daughter. I am scared at this point of my life. My daughter tells me she would like to take out a lot of people and could I get her a gun. I asked her why and she said because she didn't want them to go through what she has gone through. She also tells me she has a list and when I asked "was I on the list she said yes". She has no insurance, she doesn't take her meds and has all of the classic signs associated with CPS. I am in this alone because her father turned his back. I try to protect and care for her but at this point I am starting to worry more about my own safety. I am a family member who has been diagnosed with CPS. She is my 32 year old daughter. I am scared at this point of my life. My daughter tells me she would like to take out a lot of people and could I get her a gun. I asked her why and she said because she didn’t want them to go through what she has gone through. She also tells me she has a list and when I asked “was I on the list she said yes”. She has no insurance, she doesn’t take her meds and has all of the classic signs associated with CPS. I am in this alone because her father turned his back. I try to protect and care for her but at this point I am starting to worry more about my own safety.

]]> By: Chris http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-35046 Chris Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:59:25 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-35046 The inability of the US press, leadership and public to understand the dimensions of schizophrenia has been a longtime problem. This led in the 1970s to the unwise policy of closing most residential mental health facilities and making nearly impossible the involuntary commitment of people who had the potential to be dangerous to themselves and society at large. Cho was clearly a chronic paranoid schizophrenic who was incapable of caring for himself or living in society without constant medication and monitoring. He should have been committed to an institution before he killed so many. Those victims died because the American public and elected leaders do not understand mental illness and continue to make poor laws and policies on the basic of their misinformation. I predict that we are about to see laws enacted that will make it impossible for anyone who has sought counseling for anything listed in the DSM to purchase a gun. That will have the unintended consequence of causing people who need help, be they dangerous to society or not, from not seeking it. The inability of the US press, leadership and public to understand the dimensions of schizophrenia has been a longtime problem. This led in the 1970s to the unwise policy of closing most residential mental health facilities and making nearly impossible the involuntary commitment of people who had the potential to be dangerous to themselves and society at large. Cho was clearly a chronic paranoid schizophrenic who was incapable of caring for himself or living in society without constant medication and monitoring. He should have been committed to an institution before he killed so many. Those victims died because the American public and elected leaders do not understand mental illness and continue to make poor laws and policies on the basic of their misinformation.

I predict that we are about to see laws enacted that will make it impossible for anyone who has sought counseling for anything listed in the DSM to purchase a gun. That will have the unintended consequence of causing people who need help, be they dangerous to society or not, from not seeking it.

]]> By: pygalgia http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-34897 pygalgia Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:59:05 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2007/04/19/chronic-paranoid-schizophrenia/#comment-34897 Quite right. I posted some thoughts yesterday from my perpective as a former community mental health counselor. One of the risks we face from this event is a return to stigmatization of those with mental illness. It is a quandary. Quite right. I posted some thoughts yesterday from my perpective as a former community mental health counselor. One of the risks we face from this event is a return to stigmatization of those with mental illness. It is a quandary.

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