Stepson recalls a night of alcohol (but no $$ for meds)

The Boston Globe ^ | 12/02/2007 | Megan Woolhouse & James Pindell

[Leisler]

It was a study of eight people.( just for starters ) Come on. You couldn’t get aspirin pass the FDA with that, and for a reason.

[Old Professer]

I was commenting on the way you had characterized the main dissenter here, as though he was unbalanced for not following the crowd, that’s all.

[spunkets]

"He couldn’t afford $4?"

Not when you're paying $4/ea for railroad flares. Then there's the beer expenditues...

[ga medic]

And your response to the Alzheimer’s question is????

[ga medic]

Thanks, I was not even aware that we had a memorial wall. I will check it out.

[Xenalyte]

Why do you put quotation marks around “person”? Are the bipolar something less than people, which is what your quotation marks signify?

[romanesq]

Has anyone read the whole article. This guy has had some real problems: beatings from a father, homeless at 21, molested by a priest where he sought shelter and work, arrested for forcing a woman to perform oral sex at knifepoint, jail and the most recent trailor habitation with his mental problems.

This is just ugly every which way.

And he saw a Shrillary commercial how she “saved” someone without insurance.
We reap what we sow.

[sport]

It would not surpeise me if he was.

[cricket]

No question on just how common or the prison stats for those 'off meds'. But something needs to be done; and someone must be ultimately responsible here.

These people need to be required to 'check in' - do urine tests - 'something' per being monitored if they are left to their own devices - and pose or promise a threat to others. Otherwise; they need to be hospitalized. . .It is just as insane to imagine; the paranoid schizophrenic is going to take his meds and not otherwise be a problem. Families were on alert here; there has to be a 'call' here to reason; by 'someone'. Something has to change here. If all remote means fails. . .then holding the 'patient' responsible may be the only genuine threat these people need to fear.

Still; beyond and yet still icluding 'mental illness; people make decisions for themselves. Taking 'crack' for instance; while knowing the disconnect with reality; should not excuse the user from responsibility for any crimes committed in his name.

[cricket]

No question on just how common or the prison stats for those 'off meds'. But something needs to be done; and someone must be ultimately responsible here.

These people need to be required to 'check in' - do urine tests - 'something' per being monitored if they are left to their own devices - and pose or promise a threat to others. Otherwise; they need to be hospitalized. . .It is just as insane to imagine; the paranoid schizophrenic is going to take his meds and not otherwise be a problem. Families were on alert here; there has to be a 'call' here to reason; by 'someone'. Something has to change here. If all remote means fails. . .then holding the 'patient' responsible may be the only genuine threat these people need to fear.

Still; beyond and yet still icluding 'mental illness; people make decisions for themselves. Taking 'crack' for instance; while knowing the disconnect with reality; should not excuse the user from responsibility for any crimes committed in his name.

[cricket]

So.. .re the wisdom question 'if a tree falls in the forest; and no one is there. . .does it make a sound?'

Cannot help but feel you have an answer here. . .

[Leisler]

Physics doesn’t require our presence.

[Mercat]

thank you. I have a son who is bi-polar and thankfully he loves the way he feels when he’s on his meds. Even when he had not found the right meds and was off of them, he was (and is) a gentle good soul. In this man’s case, his mental disease was one component of the whole mess. As a caller to Sean Hannity, a psychiatrist put it, this man didn’t do this because he was bi-polar or because of any one element.