I like to think I’d be more objective if I had had a child with a serious psychological problem, especially one that was so obvious. But I’ve met parents who simply won’t admit it.
On the other hand, I’ve met parents who have spent their best years unsuccessfully trying to get their psychotic adolescents into residential care appropriate for their problem, so it’s hard to say that she could have managed to do so even if she had wanted to. And this is true even though she and his father had the money to help him; you simply can’t get kids like this the kind of serious (and usually residential) care they need.
Our mental health system is a disaster.
Our mental health system is for sure a disaster, for the life of me I cannot figure out why people who need it cannot get it- even if they have money as you said. Mentally ill people cause so many problems for their loved ones and others; though most are surely not murderers, the issues are tragic for them and society.