Linda Mims

I'm telling you, I help people in our county and you can't believe how many people

have tried so hard to get their kid.

It's awful to get their kid into care.

And you know, when you're a mom or a dad, but mostly the moms I find, and you have taken your little infant from the very beginning into the doctor to keep them healthy with their inoculations, their checkups, et cetera.

And then right at 18, when many start exhibiting the symptoms,

You're told you no longer can do that.

You no longer can help your child.

And then you have people in your county.

You call all these people when your child starts getting sick and they say the best thing you can do is kick them out of the house, make them homeless.

Perhaps they'll get picked up by the cops and then put in jail and maybe they'll get treatment.

No, that's not acceptable.

I so agree with Dr. Hagar because, again, in college, I have gone back to my undergraduate college and urged them to make sure that everybody, freshmen on in, professors, the clinics, have education about these illnesses.

I think young people are so much more open because so many of their classmates are on medication.

You know, they've diagnosed a lot of things early, not specifically schizophrenia.

And I do want to end on this note with schizophrenia.

I want to say it is a very scary word and it's not the right word to describe the illness.

In Japan, they renamed it integration disorder and so many more people came in for treatment.

schizophrenia means split mind.

I believe it comes from Greek.

This is not a split mind.