Sterlin I like this post. I have had both, a friend who totally had a psychotic breakdown where she was hallucinating that her friends and family were strangers and she got physically out-of-character violent... With her, to my eyes, she looked as if she was possessed by another energy not her self... and I was glad there was a psych team with tranquilizers and a mental ward to temporarily restrain her. Over years, on and off several meds, with a lot of love and support from family, she became totally well and has been completely "normal" ever since for 20 years. The other was a male friend on meds for schitzophrenia, was threatening to suicide one night to the OOO Operator, who told him they couldnt send an ambulance until he had actually harmed himself. (Government service) He ended up calling me at 2am, a friend and I picked him up, gave him hot chocolate, cookies, a joint and a bed and he was fine the next day. Your post is important because we are all discouraged for looking for the simple human solutions and we put labels on things and think the only answer is meds