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#1 There are about six million people in the United States with serious mental illnesses, and about 50 percent of them don't believe they're ill, so they refuse to take the medications that have been prescribed for them.

#2 In the past twenty years, there has been an explosion of research on the problem of poor insight. In a study of more than 400 patients with psychotic disorders, nearly 60 percent were unaware of being ill.

#3 I met 26-year-old Matt when he was in the Schizophrenia Research Ward at Columbia University in New York City. He had been hearing voices and delusions for six years, and had been hospitalized four times. He had stopped taking his medications six weeks before his mother called 911.

#4 Matt was extremely unemotional about his hospitalization, and he believed that the police had taken him there at the request of his mother simply because she had more seniority than he did. He also believed that an emergency room physician had admitted him to a psychiatric ward for a month.