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It's only the bad stuff !"
They never mentioned it !
My birth mother has the condition and also someone whose family I know well and they're not dangerous (well only to themselves)
Also medication, when correctly administered and the right combination is found, can help people who suffer live extremely productive lives.....there's no reason you should be able to 'tell'. Alot of it comes down to trial and error in alot of cases, the patient's acceptance of their condition and any help offered, and the people around them
As of now I believe it's just a word for people who are born bad to use as an excuse.
I'm away to read up on it...BRB
Hopefully I will learn something today.
I think you'll find words like psychopath, or sociopath, are generally more likely to be connected to people we consider 'born bad'....and also maybe schizophrenia too, but its not an excuse by any means....I have a schizophrenic cousin....he's a diagnosed sufferer now after many years of heroin and methadone abuse. There are people out there now who suffer as a side affect of a head trauma and the like.....you cant write off millions of people as 'bad' because a few people in history also happened to have been disagnosed with the same and were murderers.
At the same time, regardless of mental illness, life makes us how, and who, we are....nature PLUS nurture mould us into the people we become....some of us are lucky enough to have a stable upbringing, so that we become the most we can be as adults....and sadly some of us are so damaged by what we have seen at such a young age that we are beyond repair. I do believe that as a civilised society we owe it to everyone to help them realise what they have become and to try and teach them that there is something else they could be...
I will thank them later.
Having said ALL that ^^^ it comes to a point where you cant help anyone anymore....and you just have to realise its time to give up..
Shut up, David!
It's not a question of the media not 'liking' to report it. It's just that bad stuff gets brought to the media's attention via the police or courts. Good stuff isn't - or are the media supposed to follow every schizophrenic around on the off chance they might do something nice?