Tony Mantor

David, psychologically speaking, when someone refuses help, but their thinking is being shaped by psychosis, what are your thoughts on helping them?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's sad to hear.

Now, one option Judge Mack just brought up was power of attorney.

My understanding, in many cases, this can develop between 17 and 25.

At that age, they're just living in the moment, not living for a moment when they might need help making decisions.

So where do we go from there?

What really hits me is the time loss.

Someone brought up Eric Smith and he and I talked about it and it took him years to find the right treatment.

And he's not alone.

I've heard that same 10 year gap over and over again.

So how do we shorten that gap?

Crystal, I think you have some thoughts on this as well.

What's really hard to reconcile is in this particular case I'm about to tell you, everyone was doing their job, yet the system still failed them.

A 17-year-old kid went out and did not come back.

His mother went to the police.

The police said, oh, he's 17.

He's probably just hooked up someplace.

Don't worry.

One o'clock in the morning, he was at a gas station and their credit card dinged.