"As for why what was wrong with Cho remains mostly un-named in the Press? I haven’t a clue…"<\/p>\n
As soon as I asked that question in my last post, I recognized that I might know the answer. By the time effective medication became available for the treatment of Psychotic illnesses, Schizophrenia in particular, the problem of mental illness was huge. Gigantic hospitals with thousands of patients had become expensive but poorly maintained warehouses for the desparately ill. The antipsychotic medications provided a key to open the door and allow many of the severely afflicted to live in society. The Community Mental Health movement flourished, and the "snake pits" our mental hospitals had become began to close. But antipsychotics don’t cure Schizophrenia. They treat symptoms. There remain a larger than we would like group of patients for whom this illness is still a life stopper.<\/p>\n
Now, there are no long term treatment facilities, or in some cases, holding facilities for the treatment failures. They live on the streets, in the jails, or are taken care of by their families. People don’t talk much about patients who don’t get well. We live in a "get-well" world. If it’s so hard for professionals to come forward and say the obvious, "Cho had Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia," it must mean that things have become such that it’s not even talked about any more. If it can’t even be said now, it’s little wonder that no one said it when he was alive<\/strong><\/em> or took enough notice to take the appropriate steps to relieve his suffering as much as possible and protect both him and society from the ravages of his illness.<\/p>\n So Cho, a man with deteriorating Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia, a man who needed to be medicated and perhaps confined, was left to experience his torment in a dorm room, crazy, until he announced in his bizarre way that he couldn’t take it any more. A mental health system that cannot deal with a full spectrum of outcomes to treatment is no system at all.<\/strong> Cho wasn’t dealt with because we apparently don’t do that anymore. We only deal with people who can get better. Cho stands as a dramatic and painful example of the plight of the desparately mentally ill [alongside Son of Sam, the Unibomber, and countless others].<\/p>\n So let’s name it – Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia<\/strong>. It can’t be addressed without a proper name… <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" "As for why what was wrong with Cho remains mostly un-named in the Press? I haven’t a clue…" As soon as I asked that question in my last post, I recognized that I might know the answer. By the time effective medication became available for the treatment of Psychotic illnesses, Schizophrenia in particular, the problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}