I feel that the healthcare system lets these people down, and in doing so they let the public down too.
Last week there were 2 stories in the news where a schizophrenic was sentenced for murder and theyve let them out. One went on to murder someone else and cook his brain, then kill again in Broadmoor. The other is trying to bet a licence as a black cab driver(!!!!). And they were presumed 'safe' even with a history of murder!!!

As for professionals monitoring their medication, they would have a CPN (nurse visiting their homes daily/weekly). But ive called CPN's myself to say a patient has not collected their medication and quite often get "ohhhhhh, okay, Ill go round their later". (patients cannot get away with missing doses on this drug).

Grrr.

It is a horrible illness though, and as Warren said, most would rather hurt themselves than someone else. They cant just lock someone up. Im in a year long treatment programme to treat symptoms of borderline personality disorder, and at the same time have passed an nvq3 and btec in pharmaceutical science and services and worked full time (im VERY lucky).
Not all people should be instantly judged.