Add this to the pile of proof that it isn't a perfect world. Always wanting more and never wanting to accept anything short of perfection is like a drug addict always trying to get a higher high.

Your thoughts in the abvove column , deserve my respect with the exception of your reference to "mental health" - "hypochondriacs" - "shrinks." Forty years ago medication/diagnosis/therapy were not available for my son during his first psychotic episode due to mental illness. Today, with the evolution of neuroscientific research of the body's most complex organ, the brain, has led to brain imaging that reveals the breakdown of the biochemical and electric synapes that cause the malfunction of the brain's cells ability to communicate with each other , resulting in deformed thought processing. The early markers of mental illness are now known by "shrinks" and pediatric doctors. Effectual medications and cognitive behavior therapy is available to prevent the sine qua non of the disease, deterioation, that has destroyed my son's brain beyond hope of repair.

As a business woman and entrepreneur, I witness the wasted trillions of dollars being spent on crisis care of untreated mental disorder. The defacto interentionists become law enforecement, the ER, atate hospitals, prisons and care of the homeless. There is no cost that can be placed on lives lost to suicides nor the victims of violent crimes comitted by those disabled by delustional thout processing.

The deep ended costs of crisis care are in the trillions. My son's last five Baker Acts within two years (Florida's police intervention,) and consequent hospitilizations totaled $260,100. The economy of the return on investment of front-ended prevention care, not crisis care of the untreated chronically ill is beyond calculation.

It is too late for my son, but if one life can be saved from living his tragic life, will perhaps give meaning to the suffering, abuse, stigma and suffering he has had to endure for the past 40 years.

I will be mailing to you documentation of the physical aspects of the diseases of the brain for your review.

Thank you for your most astute consideration of the above.