The Sandy Pruett Project is an independent, anonymous, family-driven platform born from heartbreak, silence, and unanswered pleas for care. Behind every statistic is a family struggling to get lifesaving treatment for someone they love.
Independent, anonymous, and family-driven, this project exists solely as a platform for families to tell the truth about untreated Severe Mental Illness—without fear.
These stories reveal what happens when laws fail: families blocked by privacy rules, courts that confuse anosognosia with choice, hospitals discharging without follow-up, and police left to do a doctor’s job. Legislators have the power to stop this cycle, but only if they hear the truth from those who live it.
*For those of us with lived experience: experiences differ. Not everyone has anosognosia, and some posts may feel triggering or heavy for those living with these conditions.
The focus is on the crisis of denied care, never to diminish any story, but to open space for reform.
SMI Stories: Care Matters
Severe Mental Illness is not rare, and care is not optional
Dear person who does not have a loved one with Severe Mental Illness,
Our loved ones are not refusing help. Their brain disorder prevents them from recognizing they are sick. This condition, called Anosognosia, affects the vast majority of people with illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
When treated, people live full lives. They work, raise families, and contribute to their communities.
When untreated, the outcomes are often tragic: homelessness, isolation, suicide, violence, or being tormented by command hallucinations that tell them what to do. Families see the decline clearly but are blocked at every turn by laws that prevent earlier intervention.
This isn’t about willingness. It’s about laws that block care.
HELP - !!
The Sandy Pruett Project
About us
The Sandy Pruett Project is a collective platform for every family and every advocacy group working to improve care for Severe Mental Illness. Anonymous and family-driven, SPP is a resource all organizations can draw from, share, and amplify.