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...another inmate, then sidestepped a guard who tried to intervene and attacked the inmate again. The prison administration apparently found Shaw's behavior bizarre enough to call in a psychiatrist. First Bobby was given Valium. A month later, he began taking Mellaril, an antipsychotic drug often used to stabilize schizophrenia patients. In December 1974, an inmate hit him on the head with a pipe. He was severely injured...
...Bobby Shaw was never formally diagnosed with schizophrenia. Furthermore, when he was paroled in February 1975, the corrections department did not tell his family he had been on antipsychotic drugs for six months. Ideally, a mentally ill inmate coming out of prison would have community-based treatment penciled in as one of his parole requirements. Not Bobby. "They never told us he was hit on the head," says Martha. "They never told us he was on medication. They never told us anything...
...True schizophrenia patients often hide their symptoms and insist that nothing unusual is happening. It takes skill to identify some kinds of insanity. Last December, Shaw's pro bono lawyer Sean O'Brien brought in Georgetown neurologist Jonathan Pincus to interview Bobby...
...Schizophrenia is a genetically influenced mental illness involving hallucinations, delusions, depression and disorderly thinking. No one knows what causes it, but the pathology involves misfiring neurotransmissions originating in the brain's limbic system, where movement and thought are first processed, then sent to the frontal lobes, where decision-making begins. Patients commonly imagine that people on television and in magazines are talking to them directly and personally. They become antisocial and depressed and hear aggressive voices that can sometimes command them to commit suicide -- or, on rare occasions, to kill someone. Pincus is convinced that homicidal violence only occurs when...
Ensuring care for the severely disturbed, however, is only a small part of the new mental-health benefits under consideration at the White House. The President would meet little resistance in proposing such coverage. Only about 5 million Americans suffer from such conditions as severe depression and schizophrenia. But another 34 million people at any given time need treatment for lesser problems like moderate anxiety and depression. As he nears his deadline of mid-June for presenting his health-care reforms to Congress, Clinton is trying to decide whether to guarantee coverage of everything from hospitalization and psychotherapeutic drugs...