It would take far too long to go into detail but at the big city ER in which I worked for 20 years we had a "regular" (big city ER's have *many* such patients) who was from a very wealthy family who was a serious,and chronic,schizophrenic.He wandered the streets,begged for money,was routinely dirty, disheveled and desperately confused.Very sad indeed.I met his parents once and heard them speak of just how helpless they were regarding their son given the laws regarding involuntary hospitalization,legal guardianship,etc.They seemed very sincere to me.
That’s the problem and I suspect what Holmes’ parents were up against.