Reply #50: I will be interested in knowing all the [View All]

details that come out of this, if indeed we are ever privy to them. I made my comment thinking of my sister who suffers from mental illness. Its easy to say a mentally ill person should somehow be rational enough to know to take their meds because they are mentally ill, whatver that means. My sister often flushed hers or hid them. She thought my mother wanted to poison her and went though phases where she would make my mother taste her food before she ate it. We also once found a hit list she had made and my mom's name was at the top of the list. We had a drawer with a lock where all the knives and scissors were kept because she was sometimes prone to becoming violent. When she refused to take her meds and became really unstable, yes, we knew it. But try pinning down a mentally ill patient who's adrenalin is going full blast sometime and see how easy it is to make them take their meds. In addition, my sister could go for months at a time acting relatively normal and calm and then be set off seemingly without provocation. (We almost never knew what it was that had set her off). What is the wife supposed to do? Stop living? Stay permanently in a country where she doesn't live because her husband might get unstable? Leave the husband behind? I don't know all the facts of this case. It could very well be that you are right. I just refuse to swallow the Gov. version hook, line and sinker without knowing all the details. Not only because of who is in charge these days, but also due to the fact that I lived with a mentlly ill person for many years and know that there is a lot that is easier said than done.


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