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Message: [QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 238241, member: 626"] Having a family member w/ a mental illness, I've had experience w/ the insidiousness of the disease. A doctor explained to me once that a SYMPTOM of mental illness fits this pattern: A patient takes his meds, starts to feel better, and the disease/mind CONVINCES him that he's OK...and no longer needs to take his medicine. He then stops, and suffers a crash, which then requires him to take his meds...and so on, and so on. Its one very vicious circle, and depending on the severity of the illness, may demand constant monitoring or even institutionalization. Its like the drunk driver who repeatedly convinces himself he's OK to get behind the wheel, and can't control the impulse. Mental illness is the worst kind of hell for a sufferer. Good luck to Billy. [/QUOTE]