Rachel Streiff

We need to bring back true science into our discussions and our understandings.

I think if I had an audience that was everybody, I would just suggest seek understanding.

We're all on Twitter, now called X. We all see flashy headlines.

We all see, you know, that,

the sensationalized violence in the media.

There was a story that ran on one of these news channels about a young man who did not get his medication in jail.

And so he plucked out his eye and he was successful in suing the jail for lack of treating his mental illness that caused him to pluck out his eye.

I know families whose loved ones have plucked out their eyes.

And that is complication that is not uncommon from someone experiencing severe visual hallucinations.

that they can't discern from reality.

So they pluck out an eyeball.

And the social media comments on that news story were incredible to me.

Wow, what an idiot.

I can't believe he plucked out his eye and taxpayers have to pay for this now.

That was the attitude.

There is no understanding that these are serious medical conditions and that behaviors can be caused by these types of problems.

I attended a sentencing hearing for a young man,

who is currently in prison for killing somebody.

The cause of this tragedy was poorly treated schizophrenia.

A psychiatrist made a mistake on a diagnosis, gave him a wrong medication,