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He can be held accountable while receiving help, which is how it should go.
It should not be either/or. Holding Ben accountable while not treating him would not be justice, it would be injustice, and it has happened to many, many people suffering such disorders. This is what Chris was referencing when he talked about criminalizing mental illness.
Yes, Donna, people with bi-polar disorder can and do disassociate so heavily from reality they will go off medication because they feel the medication is causing them more harm then good. Ben has reportedly shown this type of paranoid behavior in the past two years.
This is not about sugar coating anything, it is about understanding a disease that someone is suffering from and has suffered from for a very long time.
Ben's mental issues are not an excuse, they are the reason, it is that simple. Until he is properly treated, until there is a system he can be placed in (state or family wise) then this will continue beyond his control.
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