Chula Vista

Read this first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosognosia

This is the cruelest condition ever. I got him to see my doctor who spent about 20 minutes talking with him and afterwards made him promise to seek psychiatric help. He never did. He and I have had many conversations where he's lucid, and he'll admit he's messed up, only to wake up the next day in complete denial. I've read a ton of books and consulted with a bunch of docs and even attended a few NAMI meetings. He's 100% schizo. The only thing that keeps him grounded is living at home with me and Lin (no pressure, no stress). He's tried moving out at least a half dozen times only to crash and burn badly. The worst being when he took a job up in LA. Within a few months he'd lost the job, got thrown out of his apartment, and totalled his car. He spent 3 months homeless and when I finally tracked him down and got him home it took a few weeks to get him back to semi-normal. Those were some scary times.

This is a fascinating read on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Someone-Menta...%27t+need+help

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”