Of course, which brings me back to the mistake the doctors made after his eight month long sojourn in a hospital. They release him, allowing the wider world to assume he's better adapted to adjust, but he isn't. So perhaps its not society that is at fault, but doctors who (in retrospect, at least) should have known better..
Of course, which brings me back to the mistake the doctors made after his eight month long sojourn in a hospital. They release him, allowing the wider world to assume he's better adapted to adjust, but he isn't. So perhaps its not society that is at fault, but doctors who (in retrospect, at least) should have known better..
While the doctors may take some blame, from what I read above, his Professors KNEW he still had issues. He told one of them he current saw angels and the Prof even admitted that he thought it was a joke at first, but then decided it wasn't.
This is a case of people whose ideals/beliefs were put to the test and reality won. People with real mental issues don't get better with head pats or just doing their work for them.
And this is nothing new. Increasingly, regardless of cause, we will elevate and promote people who can't actually do things. Kids with learning hinderances simply get less homework. Female firefighters are expected to carry less weight to pass their exam. Heck, lets get rid of standardized tests so they won't hold people back that can't get good enough scores.
Ideology over practicality. Form over Function. He was in a minority group, so he needs to be given extra.
He may have, indeed, been better, was released, then over time, relapsed. This happens all the time with mental illness and addiction. It happened to a friend of mine. She was able to live out of an institution only under the supervision of her daughter who was a psychiatric nurse, who understood the propensity to lie that is part of mental illness and addiction. It's tough stuff, living with a mentally ill person or an addict. There's an unreal component to it, and a person who attempts it needs to have a lot of support in place. On the plus side, it can be done, in some cases, and the one who does it with awareness, ends up stronger.
Of course, which brings me back to the mistake the doctors made after his eight month long sojourn in a hospital. They release him, allowing the wider world to assume he's better adapted to adjust, but he isn't. So perhaps its not society that is at fault, but doctors who (in retrospect, at least) should have known better..
While the doctors may take some blame, from what I read above, his Professors KNEW he still had issues. He told one of them he current saw angels and the Prof even admitted that he thought it was a joke at first, but then decided it wasn't.
This is a case of people whose ideals/beliefs were put to the test and reality won. People with real mental issues don't get better with head pats or just doing their work for them.
And this is nothing new. Increasingly, regardless of cause, we will elevate and promote people who can't actually do things. Kids with learning hinderances simply get less homework. Female firefighters are expected to carry less weight to pass their exam. Heck, lets get rid of standardized tests so they won't hold people back that can't get good enough scores.
Ideology over practicality. Form over Function. He was in a minority group, so he needs to be given extra.
He may have, indeed, been better, was released, then over time, relapsed. This happens all the time with mental illness and addiction. It happened to a friend of mine. She was able to live out of an institution only under the supervision of her daughter who was a psychiatric nurse, who understood the propensity to lie that is part of mental illness and addiction. It's tough stuff, living with a mentally ill person or an addict. There's an unreal component to it, and a person who attempts it needs to have a lot of support in place. On the plus side, it can be done, in some cases, and the one who does it with awareness, ends up stronger.