Taking Care Of The Most Unfortunate

So Trazodone only worked for 1 night. I am back to being incredibly drowsy with no sleep.

On a completely different note-I keep reading blogs where people talk about breaking the stereotype of what a schizophrenic person is. They usually say something like 'I work, I have friends and social skills, I'm not some bum off my meds in a dumpster.' These sorts of things disturb me. If you are high functioning  great for you! You have the right to tell people some schizophrenics are. There is a wide range of us for sure. But don't put down people who are off meds (they may not believe they are even sick; I didn't) Don't put down people with low function problems like sociability and basic care needs. And certainly don't call people 'bums in dumpsters.' Those 'bums' are human beings and are part of our community. It's not their fault they have not received enough help to get out of that situation and are not mentally capable of doing it on their own. Anyone of us could become that one day. It's the truth. Meds stop working-you get sick-you don't believe your sick-you lose your job-you don't get help because you think your fine/your too out of it to get help-homelessness. I'm sure none of us want to think about it happening to us. Maybe that is why there is such a push for people to try to prove they are high functioning/'normal' and push themselves away from others in the community who aren't as lucky.

The problem is this: there are so many low functioning homeless or otherwise who desperately need intervention and help. We know the sickest and poorest people get shut out of help due to medicare discrimination is the USA and closing of most hospital beds in USA and Canada. Our community can't only focus on the high functioning. We need to acknowledge these people and educate the public about the help they need. We need more funding and it wont come if the public think we are all just fine and dandy.