Tony Mantor

They called the police.

They said, do not let him go.

We are on our way.

They got there.

No kid, no police.

So they go to the police station and they tell them, well, he was just sleeping in the car.

He wasn't a threat to us or himself.

So they let him go.

So they're still looking for him.

And the next day, he stabs a lady a few times in her leg, winds up in jail.

Unfortunately, it took five years before it all got worked out.

Another sad fact, three to four years, he was in a state of psychosis before they finally figured it out.

From that very first night until it finally got resolved within the court system, it took five years.

How do we change that dynamic?

In this case, he was in psychosis for three and a half years, but they couldn't get anything done because during that time, he became of age, 18.

The beauty of my podcast is I hear these stories and by asking these questions, hoping that it impacts the listener enough so they ask these same questions to the people within their communities.

If we can get people asking these questions, maybe we can get the level of training around conditions like schizophrenia and anosognosia.

We have to find a way to bridge that gap so that everyone gets the help that they need.

So that leads me to this.

There seems to be a common thread of the unknown.