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In our modern time of "rights," it's extremely difficult to get a person committed to a facility where both they and society will be safe--this idea of keeping a patient a few days and letting them out bears terrible fruit.
This sad tragedy could have been prevented if we had better facilities for the mentally ill and the courts would allow people to be committed to them. If you are mentally ill, you are the last person to be making sane judgments about your needs.
My heart goes out to this family.
Mental illness has been going on since the dawn of time. My prayers are with them; I'm sure yours are, too.
There's no need to horriblize it into some sort of commentary about all of humanity.
The human mind is much too complex to make anything but broad generalizations regarding mental illnesses.
In hindsight, this man was still a very sick individual who wasn't ready to rejoin society.
My heart goes out to this family.
I too have a family member that is seriously mentally ill.
It is a seriously painful situtation for all involved.
I count my blessings that my family member is not a violent one.