Yes, I saw a front line episode of this a couple of years ago. It is truly heartbreaking.

My son has psychotic disorder and there have been times when he's been violent and just miserable to live with. He pulled some of my hair out once, that's the only time he's actually touched me. But he's been really intimidating towards me too. All the mental health ppl said just kick him out. I didn't and I'll tell you why. I'm half Hispanic and Caucasian. He's a forth Hispanic and and 3 forth Caucasian. But he looks very Hispanic. He would have had no place to go for one, and the police around here can be racist. He would have ended up unmedicated and delusional and probably violent. I didn't want him to end up in the cycle of jail, psych hospitals. I didn't want him to have a record at such a young age.

For him it was he was donating plasma to get alcohol and weed (I'm not against weed at all, but for my son it makes him delusional ). He wasn't taking his meds right. He finally had a bad delusion on the weed after not smoking it for like a month and realized it was the weed. Since he's been off weed and taking his meds more consistently he's much better.

Sorry I'm rambling, but yes prisons and jails have become the new psych hospitals.

And BirdDancer, I'm not religious either and don't believe in 'evil' either.