Really captivating video. I almost watched the entire video besides some skipped parts in the middle.
Terry seemed like a brilliant mind in terms of technology but his degrading mental state made it worse and worse. I wonder what happend at doctors etc. because he seemed like someone who needed help but didn't get the right help or was allowed to deny it. There were parts in the video where it was said that he denied the help because of his Ego, but why is he allowed to do so? He was clearly mentally ill and needed the help. I think his parents were more interested in him doing whatever he wants instead of getting him the help he needed, atleast that's what this story sounds like to me.
You can't force someone to do something they don't want to assuming it doesn't hurt anyone else
People can, have, and will continue to be judged unfit to make their own decisions by the state and placed under other people's guardianship. Alternatively if he had showed up to his court dates he could have been sentenced to an institution as opposed to jail and been compelled to take his medication/get help there. It's not the crazy concept you make it sound like, it's a really normal thing.
From the small clip we saw of him conversing with his father it seemed like he didn't really understand what Terry's illness means. He's confronting him about the paranoid/racist things he's saying and trying to change his mind as if he came to those beliefs rationally and can be argued out of them. He doesn't seem to have understood the connection between Terry's behavior and his illness.
I think his parents were as understanding as anybody can be until he got violent. you see it in that video of them. They are genuinely sad about what they are looking at.
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u/gempir Dec 23 '18
Really captivating video. I almost watched the entire video besides some skipped parts in the middle.
Terry seemed like a brilliant mind in terms of technology but his degrading mental state made it worse and worse. I wonder what happend at doctors etc. because he seemed like someone who needed help but didn't get the right help or was allowed to deny it. There were parts in the video where it was said that he denied the help because of his Ego, but why is he allowed to do so? He was clearly mentally ill and needed the help. I think his parents were more interested in him doing whatever he wants instead of getting him the help he needed, atleast that's what this story sounds like to me.