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<blockquote data-quote="Crayola13" data-source="post: 742260" data-attributes="member: 21066"><p>I know what you mean about the anosognosia. I used to volunteer at the homeless shelter. So many of the people there are afraid to take their medications because they think the pills are actually devices that the government will use to control their thoughts and behavior. Many of them don't believe they have a mental illness. It drives them away from society so that they don't even want to be part of society anymore.</p><p></p><p>My city has had some very tragic incidents resulting from anosognosia. Ten years ago, a highly intelligent computer programmer suddenly walked out of work one afternoon, went to his psychiatrist's office, and killed two nurses because he throught the medications were a camera that allowed the government to watch his thoughts.</p><p></p><p>Around that same time, a guy killed several people at a restaurant because he thought they were aliens. He was clearly off his medications and hallucinating.</p><p></p><p>The nature of the Illness makes them paranoid and scared. They always feel persecuted and scared. I don't know why they think the government is always after them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crayola13, post: 742260, member: 21066"] I know what you mean about the anosognosia. I used to volunteer at the homeless shelter. So many of the people there are afraid to take their medications because they think the pills are actually devices that the government will use to control their thoughts and behavior. Many of them don't believe they have a mental illness. It drives them away from society so that they don't even want to be part of society anymore. My city has had some very tragic incidents resulting from anosognosia. Ten years ago, a highly intelligent computer programmer suddenly walked out of work one afternoon, went to his psychiatrist's office, and killed two nurses because he throught the medications were a camera that allowed the government to watch his thoughts. Around that same time, a guy killed several people at a restaurant because he thought they were aliens. He was clearly off his medications and hallucinating. The nature of the Illness makes them paranoid and scared. They always feel persecuted and scared. I don't know why they think the government is always after them. [/QUOTE]
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