This is another problem that, yes, the government and libs, have caused. Emptying the State Hospitals of the mentally ill!
I am familiar with the mental health system due to my line of work. They have literally dumped people with severe problems into the community under the guise of compassion! There are some people who want to eliminate the very word "diagnosis." It is now being compared to racism. The thinking is, if someone is taking their meds, then they are normal and no longer ill so should not be diagnosed with a mental illness.
This is no joke. I wished I had the site that I could link to here.
It's not clear that this guy was mentally ill in a way that would have him put into such a State Hospital in the old days. We still don't know, or at least I don't, what "meds" he was previously on, or who prescribed them. Given that he was a grad student, first at NIU and then at U IL Champaign-Urbana, it could have been a student health center.W We also don't know what condition the "meds" were supposed to be treating.