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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

Well, then and now are like two different lifetimes, right? When he's that young.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

It wasn't as serious as it is now. You know, when I look back, see how he is like, I've never this past two years, I've never seen him in such a decline in such state where he didn't even recognize who I was. My husband and I have been in this, you know, his stepfather. over his house weekly, helping him with groceries or transportation.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

It wasn't as serious as it is now. You know, when I look back, see how he is like, I've never this past two years, I've never seen him in such a decline in such state where he didn't even recognize who I was. My husband and I have been in this, you know, his stepfather. over his house weekly, helping him with groceries or transportation.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

It wasn't as serious as it is now. You know, when I look back, see how he is like, I've never this past two years, I've never seen him in such a decline in such state where he didn't even recognize who I was. My husband and I have been in this, you know, his stepfather. over his house weekly, helping him with groceries or transportation.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

He's also in a wheelchair because he lost a leg due to a psychotic break he had. And so we gave him, you know, we spent time with him. And when he was younger, eventually he got his own apartment. We were living in South Florida. He got his own apartment. He was on his medication, but he was doing things like roaming town in the middle of the night, like just going out walking.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

He's also in a wheelchair because he lost a leg due to a psychotic break he had. And so we gave him, you know, we spent time with him. And when he was younger, eventually he got his own apartment. We were living in South Florida. He got his own apartment. He was on his medication, but he was doing things like roaming town in the middle of the night, like just going out walking.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

He's also in a wheelchair because he lost a leg due to a psychotic break he had. And so we gave him, you know, we spent time with him. And when he was younger, eventually he got his own apartment. We were living in South Florida. He got his own apartment. He was on his medication, but he was doing things like roaming town in the middle of the night, like just going out walking.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

I'm like, Nathan, you can't be walking around at night. You're going to get in trouble. But it didn't kind of, oh, I've talked to the police. They're fine. I tell them who I am. And he continued that even when we moved north. He even continued that behavior while he was still able to walk. It was just odd behavior, not sleeping at night, always have a hard time sleeping and managing his moods.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

I'm like, Nathan, you can't be walking around at night. You're going to get in trouble. But it didn't kind of, oh, I've talked to the police. They're fine. I tell them who I am. And he continued that even when we moved north. He even continued that behavior while he was still able to walk. It was just odd behavior, not sleeping at night, always have a hard time sleeping and managing his moods.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

I'm like, Nathan, you can't be walking around at night. You're going to get in trouble. But it didn't kind of, oh, I've talked to the police. They're fine. I tell them who I am. And he continued that even when we moved north. He even continued that behavior while he was still able to walk. It was just odd behavior, not sleeping at night, always have a hard time sleeping and managing his moods.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

You know, he'd fluctuate from being depressed to being manic. And he's doing he's an artist. He's a writer. He plays music, writes music. And so, you know, he'd be kind of like up all night. He'd get in these creative modes and he'd be up and then he'd go the other direction where you couldn't get him out of bed to do anything.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

You know, he'd fluctuate from being depressed to being manic. And he's doing he's an artist. He's a writer. He plays music, writes music. And so, you know, he'd be kind of like up all night. He'd get in these creative modes and he'd be up and then he'd go the other direction where you couldn't get him out of bed to do anything.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

You know, he'd fluctuate from being depressed to being manic. And he's doing he's an artist. He's a writer. He plays music, writes music. And so, you know, he'd be kind of like up all night. He'd get in these creative modes and he'd be up and then he'd go the other direction where you couldn't get him out of bed to do anything.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

It's bad. I'd say about two years ago, he started playing around with his medication dosage, unbeknownst to me. I think this whole thing with him ending up in jail started with COVID. So he tends to be rather isolated anyways, but he was living in disabled housing. So the people around him had some sort of disability. He did have friends and neighbors. be associated with. But COVID happened.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

It's bad. I'd say about two years ago, he started playing around with his medication dosage, unbeknownst to me. I think this whole thing with him ending up in jail started with COVID. So he tends to be rather isolated anyways, but he was living in disabled housing. So the people around him had some sort of disability. He did have friends and neighbors. be associated with. But COVID happened.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

It's bad. I'd say about two years ago, he started playing around with his medication dosage, unbeknownst to me. I think this whole thing with him ending up in jail started with COVID. So he tends to be rather isolated anyways, but he was living in disabled housing. So the people around him had some sort of disability. He did have friends and neighbors. be associated with. But COVID happened.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

And then just coming out of COVID, there were things, there were small red flags where I'd be like, hmm, what's going on here? This is a little odd. He's going to change the pictures hanging on the wall because they were evil. That was a red flag. He wasn't eating. He lost a lot of weight. He was just acting not like himself. He had bed sores.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

And then just coming out of COVID, there were things, there were small red flags where I'd be like, hmm, what's going on here? This is a little odd. He's going to change the pictures hanging on the wall because they were evil. That was a red flag. He wasn't eating. He lost a lot of weight. He was just acting not like himself. He had bed sores.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

And then just coming out of COVID, there were things, there were small red flags where I'd be like, hmm, what's going on here? This is a little odd. He's going to change the pictures hanging on the wall because they were evil. That was a red flag. He wasn't eating. He lost a lot of weight. He was just acting not like himself. He had bed sores.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
From Diagnosis to Detention: How Schizophrenia Changed Two Lives Forever

Part of this all started with bed sores where he's in bed a lot, trying to alleviate that. And I went over one day, he said he was meditating, but he didn't recognize who I was. He was in his bed and I called to have him Baker acted.