Defining 'Care' When We're Talking About a Severe Brain Disorder

'Care' in this context means more than reaching out and being friends, or any of the programs that are already out there and available for those who can find them and take an active part in their treatment and recovery. It's more than what an HMO can do, even though there is a lot of room for improvement in that area as well! 

What I proposed in my petition (links given below) is a three point need list that will help families get care for their loved ones who suffer from a severe brain disorder with lack of insight and other severe symptoms such as (but not limited to) command hallucinations.

 We're talking about a small percentage of those who suffer from schizophrenia for example, who are so impacted by their brain disorder it controls what they think and what they do. They do not have any insight to their condition and will not seek treatment on their own. Their behavior, if their disorder goes untreated, will break laws, break family bonds, and break their brain.

In these cases, time is brain. With each psychotic episode they lose the brain cells they will need in order to have a recovery. This is why it's so important that early intervention and compliance to the right treatment is so very important!

For those who can get help for themselves, this does not apply to. But as I do not want to see any path to recovery blocked, because I believe that everyone has a right to recover, we need to provide the added support for those who are most severely impacted. Right now, on a whole, we don't.

 This does include but is not limited to AOTs. When written properly, they safe guard those who don't need it from abuse and allows for a 'fast track' for treatment for those who need it the most.

 Life by illness is not a good life. It is filled with traumatic cycles of homelessness, abuse, jail, and being alone. Because their choices are made by the disorder, not by a clear mind able to make decisions freely.

I know. I've seen the changes in my son. We lost him to his disorder. He could not show love, he could not listen to our words of love. All he could hear were the command voices. All he felt was fear and confusion. All he did was destructive to people and property. Because all he was, was the illness. We didn't have him any more.

 Once we found the right treatment and he remained compliant to it we slowly got our son back! He now feels love. Not just for others but for himself. And because of his self love he makes better choices. HE make his choices. NOT THE DISORDER!

 Our family spent the better part of almost two decades finding and getting the right intervention, treatment, and recovery. I strongly believe that EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO A RECOVERY!!! Everyone has a right to make their life choices as free from their illness as possible.

The points on this petition will help families do just that. Assert their loved one's right to recover.


 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/help-families-address-some-critical-failures-government-assistance-services/B07zl2hm http://signon.org/sign/how-many-of-us-know-but.fb23?source=c.fb&r_by=6303597 We also need to to personally make an appointment with their representative to see him or her in their home office, personally write the President, personally write Biden. Believe it or not, many of those personal letters still reach them and the old theory that one letter counts for 100 petition signors locally and 10,000 nationally, is still true. So please, sign, share, and write! Families shouldn't have to give up on their afflicted loved one. We need to help them, today! Thank you for your continued support!