In article ,
 Josh Hill  wrote:


> The problem is, once they're off their meds, they relapse, and once
> they relapse, they don't know what the hell they're doing. There's no
> kindness in allowing someone to get addicted to drugs (drug dealers
> consider the mentally ill prime targets), or freeze in the street, or
> kill herself by jumping out of a window, as a friend's mother did.
> I've seen families of some of these patients beg to get them treatment
> only to be told that the patients couldn't be committed or forced to
> take medication.
> 

    There is also a good body of research beginning to emerge that shows 
every time a person goes off his meds, he (or she) tends to stabilize at 
a lower level than they had in the past. So, when they go off their 
meds, they don't get back to base line.
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