Since then, Bodhi (the brother) has been diagnosed autistic and they suspect he is also a paranoid schizophrenic, but he just doesn't verbalize like Jani does. Michael (the dad) had an affair and the parents are now divorced.
It is a truly tragic story. There is a well-written post from Michael which I can't seem to find where he gives advice to other parents raising children with mental problems.
(I found the quote, but not the whole piece)
> All I can tell you now is you have to decide what is more important to you In this life, with mentally ill children, something is going to have to go. You have decide what that is. It our case, it was our marriage. May Jani and Bodhi forgive me. I couldn’t do it all.
Somehow, the cold statistics of DNA mutation would leave us behind, and we'd become creatures with no means of adapting, until one vast catastrophe forces the issue.
What might feel practical in the moment, for one, might be terrible for the collective.
But he wasn't talking about that. A lot (most?) people with serious disorders will not have children, and from an evolutionary perspective that's practically the same as if they died young. There's already selection against those traits.
Things might have turned out much differently for these children had they been treated differently while growing up.
"There is no cure for schizophrenia." Yet.
I wonder how things might have been different if that treatment would have been tried much earlier on.
I have three small kids. I am blessed that they are 100% healthy.
I can't imagine how some people handle certain challenges.
T. Gondii is known to cause infected rats to become attracted to the smell of cat urine.
They fall and get up and keep going.
Makes so many other problems many of us have to face really seem more like "problems".
