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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for all the mental health experts weighing in here who believe the conservatorship should continue: Have you seen any other instances of an adult being put under a conservatorship for over a decade when that person has been professionally successful and paying their own bills the whole time?[/quote]

It is not my area of specialty, but I will note that the successful and well known psychiatrist, Kay Redfield Jamison (author of "An unquit Mind" and other books on Bipolar Disorder, which she has managed for decades now I believe) relayed in her book that she had layers of protection on her ability to spend money. (Yes, money she earned). She is a brilliant, high functioning person who had managed the illness for many years. And still...she insisted on protections and had agreed to external limits, or did at the time she wrote the book. Most of it was set by her then living husband . It is a one way to prevent a difficult situation (a bad episode of mania) from descending into something worse. In the book, during her manic episode she spent a large sum of money in a small window of time. When balanced and stable again, she accepted the constraints. Not the same thing as this situation, but a form of it. Jane Pauley during her mania bought a house and began frantically furnishing it. It can be a real problem.[/quote]
+1 The financial consequences can wreak havoc on a spouse, too.
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Or family members or other loved ones.  This isn't applicable to Britney and her $60 mn, but bipolar people can spend away their life savings on frivolous purchases..or damaging ones like drugs or hookers.  It's an unchecked impulsivity during the mania phase.  [/quote]

PP here +1 or gambling, risky investments etc[/quote]

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