THIS IS A MAN….

THIS IS A MAN….

A Human Being with a Mental Illness Treated Like Garbage

“Mark Rippee has survived on the streets of Vacaville for nearly twelve years despite being sightless, missing parts of his brain, enduring the pain of an interior metal rod to support his shattered right leg, fifty surgeries—many of them to heal the wounds he has suffered from repeated beatings by passing thugs. . .

…And, oh yes: despite his diagnosis of acute schizophrenia (a diagnosis that, weirdly, Mark’s family cannot definitively confirm because of restrictive and nearly useless laws)….”

Read more:

http://www.noonecaresaboutcrazypeople.com/2018/09/12/692/