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For some reason I have more experience than most seeing people in my life with mental illness.

I have seen suicide devastate families. It is especially hard on the children. Everyone close feels so responsible.

The brain is a complicated organ. When it has an issue it is bad.

Mild cases can be treated. But many can not be managed.

Society seems to put it on a back burner, hoping it will just go away. The cost of housing for life people with untreatable mental illness is substantial.

I have seen guards literally push an insane person out of a county run mental facility on to the street, telling them not to come back.

I don’t know the answer. More funding would help.

I wish people who did want to end their lives would not try and take others with them. But again they are not in their right mind, so reasoning does not work.

I noticed the last time I visited a doctor in a high rise medical tower that all the parking garages I could see out the window had tall fences around the top floors of the all their garages.

I had lunch one time with a professional person. I asked if the services are covered by insurance. The answer was yes, but everyone paid in cash. No one wanted a record.