Crystal Fox

And especially if you have a violent crime,

you will be, even if it takes years and years and years, restored to competency, even on some of the better medications, only to be taken off those medications when your court is done and you're competent and you have stood trial.

So we have problems in our jail system with that.

Also talking about

anosognosia I've done a few things since we talked last Tony and one of them was I've gone to a nursing because I'm a psychiatric nurse so I've gone to a nursing conference with I want to say it had a couple hundred doctorate level nurses I was probably the least educated person in the room and I stood up because I just couldn't take it anymore and I asked if anybody knew what anosognosia was and

So the people that were in the room were doctorate level nurses for nurse practitioners who were educating nurse practitioners, and not a single one of them knew what anosognosia was.

And so I educated them.

And the good news is I did get asked to speak in South Carolina on these topics.

And Rachel is going to get to join me.

She didn't know that yet.

So again, the education in the schools is really lacking.

And then I just finished classes on family peer support training or something of the sort, which is really interesting.

But what they said was,

in this class is in Arizona, and this is again, particularly to Arizona, I think in the nation, people with schizophrenia have a 25 year less life expectancy.

In Arizona, that's 30 years.

So I did the math and I looked up average life expectancy is 79.

And if you minus 75,

So you figure a person gets schizophrenia in their 20s, right, 18 to 25, and then you don't get diagnosed for another few years.

So the average age expectancy of somebody with schizophrenia is only 49.

So their life expectancy after diagnosis of schizophrenia or psychosis disorder is only 20 years.