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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly would you talk to them about? They have a child who is severely mentally ill, for whom they have not yet found an effective treatment, but whom they continue to try to help. They have looked into in-patient facilities for him, but by even the OP's own concession, they probably can't afford it. At this moment in time, the child is effectively non-functional. What new alternative does the OP have for them? To just throw him out onto the street to die? Because that's what would happen -- this isn't someone who's going to have an epiphany and straighten his life out, we're talking about a severely disabled person. If it were a physical handicap, would you make the same recommendation? So what do you think you will offer them, OP? What bright shiny new answer that they're completely unable to appreciate, despite the years they've been dealing with this?

I realize that all sounds angry, but as the sister of someone with similarly severe mental illness I cannot begin to tell you how offensive it is when someone, in their near-complete ignorance about how mental health treatment works, presumes to tell you how you're doing it all wrong.[/quote]

Oh, and one other thing about the in-patient treatment OP proposes. If their child is unwilling to commit himself voluntarily, there is virtually nothing OP's friend can do to make it happen. He is legally an adult, and proving incompetence so that the parents can get guardianship over him is exceeding difficult. Further, if they try and they lose, they risk completely alienating him so that he actually does run off and die on the streets.[/quote]

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