Tim Murphy

They don't say, let's let her go because she doesn't want to be picked up and she thinks she's on her way to second grade. They say, let's call the family. Let's take care of this. Well, quite frankly, that is a personal anosognosia. And someone else who we ought to put in the same category of many people with schizophrenia in a crisis to say, we need to get this person help.

It's not against their will because they don't have a free informed will. So where does all this go? When I was doing my investigations in 2014-2015, we finally introduced a bill to do several things. Make some tweaks to HIPAA laws, allow what we call compassionate communication. Lift the 16-bed rule. Expand the number of days someone could get care.

It's not against their will because they don't have a free informed will. So where does all this go? When I was doing my investigations in 2014-2015, we finally introduced a bill to do several things. Make some tweaks to HIPAA laws, allow what we call compassionate communication. Lift the 16-bed rule. Expand the number of days someone could get care.

It's not against their will because they don't have a free informed will. So where does all this go? When I was doing my investigations in 2014-2015, we finally introduced a bill to do several things. Make some tweaks to HIPAA laws, allow what we call compassionate communication. Lift the 16-bed rule. Expand the number of days someone could get care.

Fund assisted outpatient treatment and push states to do more of that.

Fund assisted outpatient treatment and push states to do more of that.

Fund assisted outpatient treatment and push states to do more of that.

We also wanted SAMHSA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, to focus, to shift its focus to look at serious mental illness and mental illness and not just mental health. Quite frankly, it was pretty goofy before, Tony. It was funding pictures and artwork and how to make a fruit smoothie and sing songs and have yoga classes. You know what? All that's good for mental health.

We also wanted SAMHSA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, to focus, to shift its focus to look at serious mental illness and mental illness and not just mental health. Quite frankly, it was pretty goofy before, Tony. It was funding pictures and artwork and how to make a fruit smoothie and sing songs and have yoga classes. You know what? All that's good for mental health.

We also wanted SAMHSA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, to focus, to shift its focus to look at serious mental illness and mental illness and not just mental health. Quite frankly, it was pretty goofy before, Tony. It was funding pictures and artwork and how to make a fruit smoothie and sing songs and have yoga classes. You know what? All that's good for mental health.

It's great if people eat right and sleep right and get involved in social activities. That's not a treatment for mental illness. And again, I go back to my cancer metaphor. Can you imagine if someone was checking into a major cancer clinic? They go into Sloan Kettering and they say, well, can I have chemotherapy and this and this and this? No, no, no, no.

It's great if people eat right and sleep right and get involved in social activities. That's not a treatment for mental illness. And again, I go back to my cancer metaphor. Can you imagine if someone was checking into a major cancer clinic? They go into Sloan Kettering and they say, well, can I have chemotherapy and this and this and this? No, no, no, no.

It's great if people eat right and sleep right and get involved in social activities. That's not a treatment for mental illness. And again, I go back to my cancer metaphor. Can you imagine if someone was checking into a major cancer clinic? They go into Sloan Kettering and they say, well, can I have chemotherapy and this and this and this? No, no, no, no.

We're going to have yoga class in the morning. Then we're going to teach you how to make a fruit smoothie. Then we're going to go do finger painting and send you home. This is how absurd the system is. And that's because people within SAMHSA, quite frankly, don't know what they're doing. SAMHSA's leadership has been weak, ineffective. Some years it has had a lawyer in charge.

We're going to have yoga class in the morning. Then we're going to teach you how to make a fruit smoothie. Then we're going to go do finger painting and send you home. This is how absurd the system is. And that's because people within SAMHSA, quite frankly, don't know what they're doing. SAMHSA's leadership has been weak, ineffective. Some years it has had a lawyer in charge.

We're going to have yoga class in the morning. Then we're going to teach you how to make a fruit smoothie. Then we're going to go do finger painting and send you home. This is how absurd the system is. And that's because people within SAMHSA, quite frankly, don't know what they're doing. SAMHSA's leadership has been weak, ineffective. Some years it has had a lawyer in charge.

In the last couple of terms, there's been psychiatrists in charge. But in the last four years, it has gone back to mental health and not to work a serious mental illness. And so what we've ended up with is massive increases in homelessness, massive increases in incarceration.

In the last couple of terms, there's been psychiatrists in charge. But in the last four years, it has gone back to mental health and not to work a serious mental illness. And so what we've ended up with is massive increases in homelessness, massive increases in incarceration.

In the last couple of terms, there's been psychiatrists in charge. But in the last four years, it has gone back to mental health and not to work a serious mental illness. And so what we've ended up with is massive increases in homelessness, massive increases in incarceration.

More homicides, as you know, 10% of homicides are committed by someone with schizophrenia, even though schizophrenia is 1% of the population. And 30% of mass murders are some with uncontrolled schizophrenia. Sometimes people will use this phrase and say, well, a person with schizophrenia is no more likely to murder someone than some without. And that's totally false.