Reply #42: Sorry again, but I've been there before. [View All]

[tomreedtoon]

I watched my mother's mind and soul taken by Alzheimer's. I didn't watch it closely; my sister, the bravest soul I know, was the one who took care of her as long as she could. But calling her every week, and talking to my mother (or trying to) gave me a taste of the hell it is to watch a person's mind die.

I'm sorry for your nephew, and I know it's hard to accept the fact that he's a person who will never be well, and may not even be a person. But I had to accept that fact. And that no matter what that band of liars called psychiatrists say, there is nothing you can do. You are powerless before the commands of that cruel being called God.

That's tragedy, and it's possible to weep about it in private. But in the area where something can be done - namely keeping schitzoids from killing people en masse - something has to be done. The people at Virginia Tech either didn't have those safeguards or they thought they were nonsense, and so thirty-three ended up dead instead of two.