Against All Odds
| Schizophrenia is a no fault brain disease. It destroys
the productive lives of its victims, it breaks up families, it estranges
friends, it shatters budgets and saving accounts, it raises taxes. It
fills up more hospital beds than any five of the other major diseases
that plague mankind combined. We should stop looking at schizophrenia as
if it were contagious, it is not. We should stop expecting
schizophrenics to manage their own affairs without guidance; they
cannot. We should not think they are violent, because they are not. The
most important thing that we can do, is to accept them as members of our
society who need help.
Thelma Hayes, Parent |
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