Severe Mental Illness: The Ignored Public Health Crisis

While 50 percent of mass homicides are associated with severe mental illness, desperate families cry out for help managing psychosis.

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“I’m afraid to die.” “What happens to my son when I die?” Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) Executive Director Lisa Dailey says she will never forget that testimony from a Virginia mother in her 80s who had spent much of her life caring for her son, now in his 50s, with severe mental illness.

He was unstable, but she couldn’t get him into treatment because he didn’t think anything was wrong with him.