they have schizophrenia. on the other hand, those aren't the only ways that we can experience mental trouble in our life. some of the things that give us trouble, is how we're constituted. not what we have, but who we are, will influence how we feel in certain situations, and sometimes how we feel in certain situations becomes so distressed, we need help with it. and then finally, everyone knows and appreciates that you can have difficulty in life because of what's happened to you, what you've encountered. damage to the brain... the interplay of personality and environment... difficult life situations... all can contribute to mental distress. so can family history. andrew leuchter: if an individual has a first-degree relative, that is a father, mother, brother, sister, who suffers from bipolar disorder, manic depressive illness, or from depression, they are at significantly increased risk for having a mood disorder themselves. a mood disorder is an emotional state, that to some degree, interferes with social,

the vast majority of people with schizophrenia never show any signs of violence.ears old and away at college when he was diagnosed three years ago. >> mike robertson: i felt like there was people around me, like, bad people or nice people. >> kroft: even when there was nobody there. >> robertson: yeah. and that's what really, that's what really got to me. >> linda doran: he told me over the phone, "i feel like i'm going insane. i swear there is a bug in my head and i just want to tear at my eyes and my skin and my scalp to get it and get it out of there so i don't have to hear it anymore." very scary. >> kroft: michael's mother, linda doran, brought him back to california and got him into treatment, which consists of regular therapy sessions and daily doses of heavy duty anti- psychotic drugs that stabilize him and help control the symptoms. >> robertson: clozapine. it's an anti-psychotic. haloperidol. cogentin or benztropine. fluvoxatine or prozac, lorazepam for anxiety. >> kroft: they often leave him listless or groggy, which is one of the reasons people with se

they have schizophrenia. on the other hand, those aren't the only ways that we can experience mental trouble in our life. some of the things that give us trouble, is how we're constituted. not what we have, but who we are, will influence how we feel in certain situations, and sometimes how we feel in certain situations becomes so distressed, we need help with it. and then finally, everyone knows and appreciates that you can have difficulty in life because of what's happened to you, what you've encountered. damage to the brain... the interplay of personality and environment... difficult life situations... all can contribute to mental distress. so can family history. andrew leuchter: if an individual has a first-degree relative, that is a father, mother, brother, sister, who suffers from bipolar disorder, manic depressive illness, or from depression, they are at significantly increased risk for having a mood disorder themselves. a mood disorder is an emotional state, that to some degree, interferes with social,

[applause] to his right is jonathan metzell who has written "the protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease." [applause] and last but not least to his right, harriet washington whose book, "deadly monopolies: the shocking corporate takeover of life itself and the consequences for your health and our medical future." please give her a welcome. [applause] so i'm going to start the conversation among us by first asking what mythologies did we all learn from writing our books that we would want to share with the audience today and discuss amongst ourselves? i'm going to start with three myths that i learned from writing "genetic justice" which was really about forensic dna. you know, when you watch all these crime programs on tv, dna rules, it seems. so these are the three myths that i learned. first of all, myth number one, that dna profiles are like fingerprints. not true. very different. myth number two is that dna evidence is infallible. also not true. it's not infallible for prosecutions, and it's not infallible for exonerations. myth number three, clerking dna profi

she hadn't seen him in a long time and he had paranoid schizophrenia. they said your son is in the hospital. we arrested him on a 51/50. he was walking naked in the street in the middle of the night talking to himself. the mother and father jumped in the car and went to the emergency room and by the time they got there, the hospital had released him. i don't understand this. it's just, you know, i'm not a lawyer and i wasn't in the mental health field before, i just, i don't understand it. the qualifications and criteria for a holder extreme and they are unrealistic. a person much be imminently danger to self or others or gravely disabled before they are picked up. if your shelter is under a freeway, if he knows of a garbage can that he can frequent, he's not gravely disabled. i'm told. if your son threatens you because his mind is telling him that you poisoned him and the police come and take your son to the hospital, it's likely that if he can present himself in a reason manner because many people with mental illness can, they will release him. and th

, late-on set paranoid schizophrenia begins later than other forms of schizophrenia. he thought people were following him, he thought people were use magazines to cause vibrations in his body. this is a brain disease. it's a brain disease like parkinson's or alzehimer's disease. something along with his -- something went wrong with his brain in his 20s and you're looking at symptoms of the disease, one of which is acting out and in this case killing people and in his mind he was doing it based on delusions. my guess is that he was terminated by the navy, more or less, discharged. he probably think it is navy were doing all these things that he's experiencing in his mind and he was going to get back at them and so this episode makes no sense to us but to him it made perfect sense. >> woodruff: and we're still looking for more information that would confirm your theory. dr. ritchie, what about his -- the fact that -- the veterans administration, there's a report that they were treating him. now, that has not been confirmed. what are the -- what would the normal procedur

was even exacerbated because the paranoid schizophrenia can't legally obtain a gun. and when i was able to function in you know which took quite some time and look into all of this he maintained even he could obtain the gun with a rule that still active today that is if you are committed in voluntarily judge to a mental institution you do lose your gun rights but if you commit yourself if you go voluntarily you don't the murderer of my son's murderer had twice in the past committed himself to a mental institution but because he had done it all and terribly he was not. barred from by guns illegally so this is this is just a horrible loophole or one it's so many in the gun situational it's a there's a parallel to the to the shooter here at the navy yard where twice he had been arrested i believe institutionalized at least once. for gun violence that seem to be associated with something that might be paranoid schizophrenia which is not to end but on the other hand we don't want to stigmatize people who are paranoid schizophrenics i actually you know when i used to do my

my mother has 60s schizophrenia since i was very young. we went through the same heart aches in terms of trying to get her into treatment and having her presented very well and having her discharged and police getting involved simply for being psychotic in a public area and going to court hearings. a very messy issue. the reason why i'm interested in this particular issue is not because i'm interested in controversy or particularly polarizing issues, but because i believe in it. i believe that laura's law outpatient treatment is a tool among many tools that we have in the mental health system to try to engage people in a recovery based way. the foundation of laura's law is a multidisciplinary team trying to engage people, trying to give them as much say in the treatment plan as they are willing to provide and when you read the description in nevada county that has it fully implemented. when you meet the people who work they are, they believe in the same things that mr. vega was mentioning, love kindness, i think that's why we all do this w

but this morning you talked about new treatments for schizophrenia.y mother's doctor tomorrow. right. i found a new regimen using risperidone. it's less likely to produce restlessness. how old were you when she developed symptoms? seven. she's been slipping away from me my whole life. i just can't seem to let go of her. you know what i mean? look, uh... thanks. maybe i could get the name of that drug from you. i already wrote it down. i was gonna send it to you. thanks. you think we could get... get together sometime for a cup of coffee or something? detective, i'm a married woman. no, you're not, nelda. you've been divorced for six years. and you still wear your wedding ring because you haven't stopped lovin' him. you have a big heart. i like that. maybe when we see each other next time, you can call me robert. [door buzzer] [phone rings] hello. just wanted to make sure that you got up to your apartment okay. yes, i did. thank you. good night, robert. tried bertolli skillet meals and got more of italy than they expected. ♪ bertolli. your house? si, s

it's a little known -- there are more people who have borderline personality disorder than schizophrenia. >> now, there are millions of people in america that suffer from some form of mental illness, some form of personality disorder. there are also, as we know, 300 million guns, you put the two together. i say to people, these countries all have mental health issues, the violent video games. the problem in america is when you link the mental health problems with easy access to guns. as we saw rick warren's son was able to easily buy one on the internet and saw the naval yard shooter went to a gun store. >> right. i think we have to be clear about the fact that in both cases when you have a child that's now not a child after 18, that's an adult, you have no access to their mental health records. >> unlike the warrens in if navy yard shooting case, she had no idea about any of these problems. he was the life and soul. amador, is that a familiar thing when people get to adult age they can mask these problems from even their closest family? >> absolutely. it's very common. because half of t

mayor lee schizophrenia san francisco in the bay area grow a prosperous future without dollars in about soothing. >> we have to do so, in fact, the predictions we have no other choice. first of all, i want to thank you for visiting us here in the common wealth. i've been, of course, very lucky to be the mayor of this great city. we've had a innovation of great history whether for humans rights or same-sex marriage that's been that spirit in our city. we never left regional or national problems get to us. but i found i've been lucky to the mayor we were faced with very traditionally financial systems that were not going to save us from the likes of detroit and stockton and others. we were really looking at whether we were going to continue to do the same thanks that would bring others into financial problems. i took the realm hoping that all of my years of experience i could have confidence and billed the spirit where we weren't trying to blame each other and except where we are and find the talented the magic between the board of supervisors and at the mayor's office but then the fiscal

there have been some studies looking at individuals with bipolar disorders as well as skwiz schizophrenia. 40-60 percent have systems of lacking awareness. what this means is basically there is damage to certain pathways of the brain responsible for self reflection and self awareness. this has been shown in neurology for individuals after they have had strokes with particular areas of the brain that have been damaged, has also been shown for individuals with dementia and in my clinical experience and my personal experience with my family member, it's very clearly an issue in mental health as well. the dilemma is that if there are individuals who are biologically unable to self reflect and have an awareness of their illness, they oftentimes very frequently will not want to engage with treatment and do not see themselves as needing treatment. and this is beyond psychological denial, kind of realizing deep down that there is an issue but not wanting to accept it. it's also beyond simple stubbornness. it's a natural inability to realize that there may be something wrong. one particularly pert