Nick Reiner's Schizophrenia Diagnosis: What the Family Was Really Dealing With | Shavaun Scott

Rob Reiner once said that the family listened to professionals with "diplomas on their wall" instead of listening to Nick when he said treatment wasn't working. Maybe there was a reason it wasn't working. Maybe the treatment was never right to begin with.

According to multiple reports, Nick Reiner was diagnosed with schizophrenia — a serious psychotic disorder — years before the killings. But for a long time, the focus was on addiction. Eighteen rehab programs. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. All aimed at substance abuse.

What if the substances were never the core problem?

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins us to examine what the Reiner family may have actually been dealing with. She explains what schizophrenia is — clinically, not cinematically. How it affects the brain. How it distorts perception. How it often co-occurs with substance abuse. And how, in many cases, the drug use is actually an attempt to self-medicate symptoms of a disorder the person doesn't even know they have.

Shavaun breaks down why schizophrenia gets missed in teenagers who are using drugs, what happens when someone with a psychotic disorder goes through traditional addiction treatment, and why dual-diagnosis care is different from what most facilities actually provide.

We also examine the medication change that occurred weeks before the killings. Sources say Nick became "out of his head" after the switch. Shavaun explains what destabilization looks like, why medication transitions are dangerous, and what should have been done differently.

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