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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I'm not "unwilling" to apply. I could not get him to any kind of appointment in close to two years of trying. He voluntarily committed himself for one thanksgiving weekend and got out with a prescription and referrals to mental health professionals. Went two one counseling session and quit. You really can't apply for disability for someone who won't get in a room with anyone who is authorized to enroll him in benefits. He actually doesn't mind medication. Unfortunately he also sold it, a practice upon which MD law looks unfavorably as it turns out.

I don't know why it's hard for people to understand that you can't force a person to go where he doesn't want to go. This isn't a five-year-old child. If I duped him into going somewhere and "somewhere" ended up being a government office or a social worker he'd hightail it out of there.

A couple of years ago it took me three different trips to MD to help him clear his traffic tickets and overdue registeation penalty so he could get his license reinstated. He stood me up twice -- and this was for an errand he ASKED me to help him with.

I talked to the social services agencies in his county, tried to get the family minister to find us a liaison of some kind, asked his criminal defense attorney to try to make it look more attractive to get the benefits while their case was still going on, asked his crazy ex girlfriend to help (and offered her money if she could get him motIvated).

As some have suggested my parents make the situation even worse. I've asked them to withhold cash until he goes and gets set up with more mental health care and only pay him when he shows them a receipt for counseling appointments but they refuse.

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