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[quote=Anonymous]My DC is empathetic, smart, and well educated. That is when DC is affected by the serious mental illness. DC was identified with MDD when DC was in high school junior. Took medication for a while, also went through therapy for several months. Stopped taking medication when DC finished high school.

Went to college on full ride scholarship. Had mental breakdown towards the end first year and crashed the GPA to 2.4. Decided to stay in college and finish education with college health care center support. Started medication and therapy in college. Worked hard, finished college 6 months early with a CGPA of 3.6. Stopped medication towards the end of college and started self-medicating with marijuana. When DC graduated, it was in the middle of COVID. Could not find a job right away and could not decide what to do. Started doing part time jobs and did not suck around due to mood disregulation. Found other people who were experimenting with other drugs and tried few.

At the end of 2021, DC experienced psychosis and was involuntary admitted to hospital for attacking family members. Hospital diagnosed it to be schizoaffective disorder and released DC in a week after just stabilizing DC barely, without any medicine compliance. Was admitted involuntarily back to the same hospital within 2 days of release for having another psychotic episode. This time under pressure from family members and coercion by the social work DC agreed to be medicine compliant. The medicine prescribed seemed way too much making DC feel like Zombie. DC stayed on medication for 6 months and finally stopped medication mid of 2022. Started smoking marijuana again a little by little, and DC’s mood swing started again towards end of 2022. Went back be being extremely unpleasant and aggressive gradually. End on March DC admitted voluntarily to hospital suspecting drug overdose. Turned out that it was hallucination and was kept in hospital involuntarily for a week. DC refused medication and was released a week later. Was aggressive to family members again in 2 days and involuntarily admitted to hospital for the 4th time. This time the situation was so bad that DC was scheduled for mental court hearing 1 and ½ week from the day of admittance, for long term hospitalization. Within the 1 and ½ weeks DC fought with hospital staff several times and was sedated at least 3 times. DC met with the public defender and on his advice agreed to take medication, just so that DC can be released. Dc was released on the 4th day of taking medication. DC came out of the hospital, stopped medication and started smoking marijuana. Is seriously delusional, does not even talk to friends, keeps driving around without much sleep and neglecting basic self-care.

We are completely at our wits end to help DC. We have realized that admitting DC involuntarily again and again would not work. The hospitals are just businesses, who do their basic minimum to stabilize DC for 2/3 days and would release again. We have spend thousands of dollars on hospitalization costs, with no result.

DC does not want to see therapist or take medication. Is there any legal or medical path to our suffering? Who would help? Where do we find support? 
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