For parents whose adult children suffer from schizophrenia, observing their loved ones being drawn into Targeted Individual (TI) communities — via online groups — can resemble witnessing a meticulously crafted and delicate treatment plan being violently dismantled. These parents have likely dedicated years to assisting their children in accepting their diagnoses, adhering to their medications, and achieving a semblance of stability. When their children are influenced by TI advocates to dismiss psychiatric care — being told, for example, that their auditory experiences are not symptoms but rather evidence of government experiments or surveillance — it not only jeopardizes their progress; it also endangers lives. Parents articulate the nearly indescribable sorrow of seeing someone they cherish spiral into paranoia, isolation, and at times irreversible deterioration — not solely due to the illness itself, but because a group has intentionally urged them to reject assistance. These are not benign belief systems; they are ideologies that result in genuine casualties.