. . . The vast majority of people with mental illness are (1) not dangerous. But I think one of the key problems with our approach today is (2) that we do a lot of treatment based on the idea of danger. Waiting for danger--danger to self, danger to others--is just too late, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I have a brother with severe and persistent mental illness; my husband also had siblings with schizophrenia. His sister was (3)receiving good care from her family; they were providing her a place to live, they were helping her raise her son, they were giving her clothes, they were (4)making sure that she did not use money frivolously. The family took care of her until her delusions became too great, and she left the family home with her 10-year-old child in tow. My husband and I are (5) resourceful, but for two years we tried to get treatment for her, we tried to get her and the child off the streets, and we were (6) repeatedly told it would violate her civil rights. She was (7) living in a camper; she was eating out of convenience stores. I remember we gave $250 to an attorney, who told us that we should stop looking at the situation with our middle-class morals. We never expected danger from Betty. We were(8) only worried about danger to her and the child living on the streets. But then, without warning, she taxied 75 miles and brutually murdered my mother-in-law, whom she had not seen for two years. She had lost her ability to exercise her civil rights when we allowed the hallucinations and the delusions to take control of her judgment. This was (9) strictly societal neglect. We were (10) prevented from getting her to a place of safety where she could have been (11) restabilized on her medication. Had that occurred, she would now be (12)adequately mothering her child, my mother-in-law would be alive, and the system would have saved one heck of a lot of money.
1. MV 2. MV 3. PROG 4. PROG 5. MV 6. PASSIVE 7. PROG
8. MV 9. MV 10. PASSIVE 11. PASSIVE 12. PROG
Pippen played for Houston until he opened his mouth on Wednesday. He said that Barkley (1)should apologize to him for playing selfishly. Clearly, Pippen wants to be traded. He (2)will undoubtedly get his way since Barkley (3)would likely slap him at the first possible opportunity. Pippen (4)may go to Portland because they need a person with his experience. Unfortunately, acquiring Pippen (5)will mean that they must trade several players. Having a deep team was what was special about Portland. What Pippen may really want is to come to LA. Coming here to play for his old coach (6)may be his true goal. The question then becomes whether he (7)can play with Bryant and O'Neal. I think Pippen was an unbelievably good player at Chicago. But, I still remember his refusing to enter that game. I think he needs to play with very mature players. Unless O'Neal, Bryant and the rest have become mature over the summer, LA may be a bad fit.
7. ability, 6. potential (possibility), 5. prediction (future time), 4. potential (possibility), 3. conditional prediction, 2. prediction, 1. obligation