Oh boy,...
Over arching the whole situation is the fact that mental illness has been treated as a step-child in society - the medical community doesn't really embrace it as an illness, and the civil community isn't trained to deal with it, so the tragedy is that many of those afflicted with mental illness fall through the cracks of society, both medically and civilly, and end up with additional, even more serious problems. There is no question that something has to change to interrupt this vicious cycle in order for there to be progress in the treatment of mental illness.
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