If this is true, it makes perfect sense why the rest of the industry was not so welcoming either. Dealing with people who have those types of illnesses is so difficult and scary.
My college roommate`started developing schizophrenia the first year we lived together. I had known her before that and that's why we agreed to live together. But after a few months, she started doing really strange things like taping up all her desk drawers because she thought people were opening them when she wasn't around. She claimed people were following her. Her temperament was so off and she would complain if you sat next to her. Her personality became volatile to the point that it started becoming frightening. I couldn't ask for a change of dorm until the next year and it was a nightmare year.. and she used to be my best friend before it.
At some point, her sister told me they were taking her to the doctor but I'm not sure what more happened with it. We lost touch after I moved out because it was mentally exhausting to be around her. You can't do anything as an outsider and they don't listen either. Average people are not experts at dealing with mental illness either. You feel a huge relief when you're able to get away from them. It might be selfish but it's also self-preservation. Nobody sticks around other than family and sometimes not even them.
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