“Nor on the patient is embarrassed.” The verse talks about raising the embarrassment and responsibility for a person in the event of a mistake or a crime due to his illness, which is a legal humanitarian rule that takes into account the weakness of man and his impotence. However, what about the psychological patient who refuses to recognize his illness and lives his day naturally on the surface, while he carries a fire that may burn and burn those around him?
Psychiatric disease is no less dangerous than physical diseases, but some of it kills its owner silently as cancer does. Just as the cancer is eating the patient’s body quietly until his signs appear suddenly, there are psychiatric diseases that are neglected in the patient’s behavior and consciousness, without being seen with the naked eye, but they are felt by the exhausted spirits around him. The only difference is that cancer often leads to its owner, while mental illness is not treated, it may lead to its owner and those around it.
The unconscious psychiatric patient with his illness, nor subject to behavioral or drug therapy, may turn into a permanent source of anxiety, fear and psychological pressure for his family and neighbors, and everyone who deals with him. He always sees himself on the right, and others are the mistakes. It may be repeated from the harmful behaviors, and it is referred to the concerned authorities in cases such as assault or inconvenience, then it is re -deposited in the Psychiatric Hospital, to come out and return to the same behavior .. until the disaster falls.
This is what happened in the crime of “Al -Shakhoura” that rocked society. In the recent session of the witnesses, the perpetrator’s brother said before the court: “My brother suffers psychologically, and he was deposited in psychiatry 25 years ago.” Is it reasonable to live among people all this time without continuous care or strict therapeutic control? Is it sufficient to say after every crime: “He was a psychological sick”?
The truth is that this group of patients need a different containment, the parents alone cannot present, and a intermittent treatment session is not sufficient to change it. The problem is not only related to parents, but to the society that is still – albeit in a small percentage – does not realize that mental illness needs long -term treatment, a comprehensive plan, and perhaps to a specialized unconventional institution that exceeds the current therapeutic concept based on psychiatry alone.
We need an independent institution concerned with evaluating the cases of psychiatric patients dangerous to themselves, or others, and follow them behavioral, psychologically and socially, and works on early intervention based on suspicious reports and behaviors, and sets rehabilitation programs, and determines the necessary residency periods for treatment, with accurate monitoring after leaving, in cooperation with the judicial and social authorities.
Leaving such cases without radical treatment is not only an injustice to the patient, but a danger to the entire society. Unfortunately, it is not the first crime of Shakhura, as previous crimes were recorded by psychiatric patients, and all ended with a criminal in psychiatry by a judicial order .. Then what? Then the ball is repeated.
It is an invitation to officials, and to society, to realize that prevention is better than waiting for a new crime.
