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He's now living in it as well.
I've sold myself on this at the
And that's why I think the diaper discussion kind of misses the mark a little bit.
Was he contributing in his own ways at home?
I bet.
But what we do know about this case is that the psychiatrist had written statements and verbal statements to both of them that if you do this again, this will happen.
It kind of screams to me, this is maybe just a personal take.
If a situation is this serious, where we're getting into psychotic episodes, and this was conveyed to me, I know how I would have handled this.
Because I also have a lot of faith in doctors in general.
And I don't know what Rusty's relationship with even understanding mental health or even trusting doctors.
And unfortunately, I think if you have some of these more radicalized religious views, that often doesn't coincide with medical health.
you know and like trusting science well it's a spiritual issue instead of a medical issue exactly so i think a lot of that was probably at play and then for him to admit like oh i thought it was going to be like the flu that seems like a major where your ears shut down yeah could you not read the note like that seems to me that was like active willing ignorance and i'm sorry that no i agree 100 with you on that i i don't know how you come away
And in these circumstances, if clearly the patient might not understand exactly what's going on, you would assume that their partner would then definitely be attentive and paying attention to everything.
At least that's kind of how I would do it as a partner.
Like if it's a circumstance like this.
For any illness.
Anything.
Right.
And I know for the listeners, this might seem very harsh.
And like, I do also want to like remind myself that I also.