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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/15/who-is-nick-rob-reiner-son

I've read some DCUM posts in the past about parents being worried for their own safety or feeling threatened by their adult children and seeing more comments on some of the news articles reporting the son's arrest. Does anyone have other examples or experiences and when do you know that the child is capable of such violence?[/quote]

Yes, unfortunately, in our old neighborhood, a son killed his father.

And another boy killed his psychiatrist.

Both were mental illnesses.

Also the Hoggle mother who killed both her own children. She was sick way before becoming an adult.

[b]Our mental health system sucks [/b]and now there is zero hope for that system given the current administration.

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Can you elaborate on what is needed to improve the health system?[/quote]

DP. There are two large issues: accessibility and funding. There are too few programs and providers to accommodate the existing needs. And it is difficult to get funding to pay for care if you can find it.

A third issue is that it’s hard to find appropriate care in that people don’t have a sense of what is out there but are often left to their own devices to find what’s necessary. It’s completely unlike other areas of medicine. I mean when you get cancer, a doctor determines your treatment protocol. With MH care, you’re on your own. For example, when mine needed a long term inpatient, the psychiatrist told me that but had no list of programs for me to look at - I was on my own. If you’re not resourceful, you might not find what you need.

Fourth issue is that so much with psychiatry is trial and error. It can take six weeks for  medication to work and if it doesn’t you move on to the next. In one year my child had 13 different medication combos and none worked. Plus if the mental illness manifests young, there are whole classes of medication that can’t be prescribed due to age. [/quote]
We live in FFX county, and our psychiatrist called the hospitals to find a bed. I am not diminishing your struggles, but it is all very specific to a doctor and a patient. [/quote]

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