CO Must Increase the Number of Inpatient Beds for People Living with Severe Mental Illness
Colorado, USA
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Unfortunately animals are treated better than our children and loved ones. People have no idea of the reality behind mental illnesses. The governments response to mental wellness is locked up in a jail or prison. Would we put a diabetic, cancer patient, blind, deaf, or any other illnesses into a jail for treatment? NO! That would be a ridiculous! So why then do we do that to our mentally ill? They deserve to be treated with RESPECT and REAL HEALTH CARE! Unless you see mental wellness in its reality you could never understand that prison and homelessness is our countries answer to mental health care.
THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE! NOW!
Julie supported: Christopher’s Law: Giving Families the Power to Help Loved Ones with SchizophreniaMy son, Billy, was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 21. He took his medication but as one doctor put it, he was an unfortunate young man, that the medication did not help. His father died young and his older sister, my daughter, tag team keeping him alive for three years. It was a 24-7 fight. My son voluntarily checked himself into a mental health in-patient facilities in Florida. There was a sign in sheet for friends and family members at the facility. Some times from day to day, no one would sign in except me. The others in the facility were not getting visitors and were lost in the West Palm Beach mental health system. It broke my heart. He tried to work, go to college and church, but the voices wouldn't let him and his medications in 2004 were just not the right ones for him. During the hurricane of that year, in mid September, he got in his car and rammed into a power pole. He was in an induced coma for two weeks. Then he got an infection and God took him home. The last thing I could do for him was to share his story and support families and victims of this insidious brain disease that there is hope, and loved ones need the power and support to speak for their children that are suffering. Suffering. Who knows their child better than their family and loved ones? Please support Christopher's Law. ~ Billy's Mom
April supported: Christopher’s Law: Giving Families the Power to Help Loved Ones with SchizophreniaMy son was also dx with Schizophrenia at the age of 17 years old he was non compliant yet my voice did not matter. My son passed away 2025 I am devastated the law must change it has to change Please
Rocio supported: Christopher’s Law: Giving Families the Power to Help Loved Ones with SchizophreniaIt took three years and six hospitalizations before my child accepted medication. By that time, her life had derailed. Her condition had worsened. Her support team at Seneca quit on her and suggested that I refuse to allow her back into my home, but I was not willing to let my beautiful, mentally ill teen daughter live in the streets. In hindsight and with the benefit of medication and the clarity that came with that, she deeply regrets waiting to start meds.
Liz supported: Christopher’s Law: Giving Families the Power to Help Loved Ones with SchizophreniaAs a result of untreated severe mental illness including anosognosia, my brother, James Mark Rippee passed away on November 29th, 2022. He was blind, with schizophrenia and anosognosia. He was found in the middle of the night -- gasping for air-- on a sidewalk. He was suffering from a brain disorder, and he needed medical treatment. We sought answers and help for him unsuccessfully for 36 years, 16 of which he spent homeless. As an advocate, I have pushed for laws that incorporate anosognosia with the understanding that 50% to 90% of those with SMI lack insight including Prop 1 and SB 43. He shouldn't have died, and more will because anosognosia is not taken into consideration when treatment is needed.
Catherine supported: Christopher’s Law: Giving Families the Power to Help Loved Ones with SchizophreniaAs Executive Director of the National Shattering Silence Coalition I hear from Massachusetts families quite often. NAMI MA is failing these families in opposing previous AOT legislation- their loved ones living with SMI who experience anosognosia are ending up in the criminal justice system or worse dying on the streets. AOT is supported by NAMI National and was even a featured talk at NAMICON this year. The most vulnerable are being discriminated against in being denied medically necessary care because they are too sick to know they need it. It is disheartening that an organization that is supposed to be supporting those with SMI is so disconnected to the needs of these individuals and their families! Early intervention is critical for those experiencing psychosis and anosognosia https://www.nationalshatteringsilencecoalition.org/uploads/1/4/4/2/144281710/nssc_guide_psych_illnesses.pdf
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