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[quote=Anonymous]I'd let her talk, let her know when the 15 min are up.

I have a friend with long term mental health issues who is currently living in a supervised setting. Normally she would be able to go out on her own to shop or whatever but the setting has totally clamped down on that, can only go out to appts and with an escort if any shopping to be done. For years she has fixated on the idea of getting DOJ action on a collection of people and entities (she used to actually worked on stuff in this area before her MH issues got the best of her so she quotes US code and EOs chapter and verse constantly). This gets MUCH worse when she is living under supervision and cooped up. There's zero traction in trying to inject some reality into the conversation and I am to the point where I put the phone on speaker, turn the volume down so I can just hear her, pick up periodically to touch on something more normal (she'll turn it back pretty quickly) and let her know when time is up. I can't change what she wants to talk about but she has very few bridges left to other people. [/quote]

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