Crystal Fox

And if we could get these kids during their first episode or even before, even tell them, hey,

Your kid's kind of a little off.

You know, I'm a little bit concerned that they could be developing a psychosis disorder or schizophrenia.

This is what it looks like.

This may not be that.

But, you know, let me know if you see these symptoms.

I mean, think of the difference if we just openly discussed that your loved one is in trouble.

It's FERPA, probably.

And I also think you brought up a really good point, Tony.

You made me like think, you know, the big picture of parents calling the police and parents calling the hospital and parents calling, you know, to check on their 19 to 25 year old.

You know, their first response is they're 18.

They can do what they want.

I mean, in the big picture, when you're talking to police who have all sorts of behaviors of this age group, how do they pinpoint what could be more alarming?

So is it education about schizophrenia and that this age group is susceptible to this illness and that it needs to be taken more seriously?

And you bring up a good point that I really hadn't thought of before.

And part of that is sometimes when we're calling the police when our kids are this young of an age, 18 to 24, 25, we don't even know what's going on.

So we don't even articulate it very well.

So some of it isn't even their fault.

Some of it's that we don't have the language yet to even be able to effectively communicate what's going on because the doctors aren't giving us the language.

So again, just a couple things I'm going to compare again with autism.