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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is mentally ill, steep decline. We are a professional, middle class family. His illness has destroyed us, and there is little to no recourse in America. HIPAA and the rights for the mentally ill dont protect them, or families. He will probably end up living under a bridge and there is nothing we can do. We need the ability to treat people and for families to interact with mental health . We actually have the resources in our family, we just can't force him.[/quote]

That’s such an eye-opening perspective. Appreciate you sharing.[/quote]

Ty for being kind. Ask me anything. We are in the middle of it, and it is hell. If you looked at us, you would never know. We shop at whole foods and have successful friends and I thought a happy life all that. Now we are pretty much in ruin because our foundation is just dry rot.  It was a total surprise to me - this kind of psychic break can just... Happen. The weird thing is I've sat with my spouse and watched Netflix shows about people with multiple personalities etc. and he's nodded along, and I now know he himself has been delusional for some time. The mentally ill sometimes have zero awareness that they are in fact, mentally ill. Those with awareness are the impacted - their families..and there are HUGE barriers towards our interacting with the doctors. The process for guardianship or conservatorship an expensive nightmare, and not guaranteed to be successful. Mostly it will just bar him from future employment and tick him off. We will go there if he needs to be permanently institutionalized - right now we just want a diagnosis, which is apparently a lot to ask in this country. Literally all we want is to give some input to a psychiatrist because what he tells the doctors is his reality, which is false. Our country is well prepared to address outlier behaviors from a criminal perspective - my spouse has done some weird stuff I'm discovering like shoplift for no reason (again, highly successful)- but not to get mental health. And I am fully prepared to say that at this point, his getting arrested may be our best option as a family since there is no other mechanism..[/quote]

Same here- just read this comment. If my sister gets arrested or worse it will be for her own good. We are so ashamed of the pain she has caused both to our parents, our kids and to random strangers she has conned out of thousands to feed her addiction. She cannot hold down a job due to brain damage from her drug use and drives a car drunk and high annd opens any new credit card she can. She’s an absolute menace. It’s horrifying. [/quote]

The idea of all the harm they can do. Including to innocent people in their path. It's the stuff of nightmares. I wish we could just hospitalize people like this voluntarily or involuntary. Everything is so skewed .[/quote]

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