Bravo nothing. I'm sick to death of people like Jaffe presenting false stereotypical images of "schizophrenics" as psychopathic monsters at worst and victims of anosognosia at best.

I've rubbed elbows with Jaffe before in a community of schizophrenics which he was finally banned from because never once did he try to actually get to know any of the people there, never once did he acknowledge their kindness or compassion towards one another. Instead, he would just show up long enough to post yet another one of his collected stories of travesty as if somehow constantly reminding people that most of society thinks they are little more than brain-damaged neanderthals was supposed to help them get well.

His story just before he was banned was about a young man who had triggered a psychotic episode through marijuana use. In the process of that experience, he had threatened two securities guards -- not hurt them although he probably frightened them. They lived. He did not. His body was probably still warm at the point that Jaffe appointed him his new anosognosia poster child, to be used as a demonstration of why "schizophrenics" must be treated like criminals for the betterment of society. He did not consider that he was in a community of parents of individuals labelled as "schizophrenic" and that could have been their child. He did not consider that he was in a community of "schizophrenics" and those rare acts, did not speak to the ongoing relentlessness of their kindness, their bravery, their courage, their struggle on a day by day basis.

Meantime, that's all it ever is with Jaffe -- sensationalistic stories of schizophrenics who kill. But where is Jaffe when schizophrenics die from the very treatment he insists should be forced upon them? I already invested some time in trying to understand the man because I know there are millions of people and millions of families out there who cannot get the help they so desperately need and nearly everything the man said was a gross distortion. There are some entirely valid presentations that could be made and argued for in terms of compassionate, accessible and affordable care/treatment that do not require Jaffe to paint his pictures of violence and mayham. But Jaffe doesn't take that angle. I noted elsewhere, I know of no other individual who has done more to further the distorted myth of the schizophrenic as someone to be feared than Jaffe. And he does all this while insisting there is no such thing as stigma.

All this hype about medication and you know what, that's not the issue. What is the issue is that we don't listen to people. When people tell me their medication helps them, I believe them. And when they tell me it doesn't, I believe them. They would know far better than you or I.

Meantime, if it's wrong to kill then it's wrong to kill a schizophrenic too -- a simple truism that Jaffe seems to have overlooked and does not want to acknowledge. If a schizophrenic kills someone, it's because they weren't on medication (according to Jaffe). But if he inadvertantly kills someone by insisting they must take medication that has the potential to kill them, he wants us to think he's some kind of hero. More distortion, compliments of Jaffe.

You're welcome to get in behind whoever you want but there are a lot of people who will not be joining you in your kudos and admiration.