Another reader, I worked 17 years at DOC Alaska mental health ward so yeah...I have talked with just about every form of mental illness out there. How about you? What we need is a plan of action to deal with the mentally ill because the current approach is simply not working.  You seem to think that all we need to do is give them medication, home and a job. That is naïve at best, stupid at worst.  Mental health is a life time illness so we need a long term plan. And yes, hospitalization must be part of the plan. I dare any mental health clinian out there who claims that he can come up with a medication in a 15 minutes session. It usually requires weeks to come up with what works for just one patient. Helping a human being like this requires a full court press.....not the care bear approach that you like,. Anything else, is a waste of money and that is the hard cold truth.  Another Reader. Put down your Deadpool comic books.