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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You and/or you daughter have one more resource for support: the hospital. Psych units routinely involve the patient's support system, and they also try to do careful transition and discharge planning. Your daughter can ask to talk to a staff member on one of her visits if she is confident enough to do so.

Alternatively, you could phone. Ask your daughter for the name of the right staff member to contact. That person almost certainly will not share any treatment or planning information with you; she or he may not even acknowledge that roommate is a patient. But the staff member can listen to your concerns, and in that one-sided conversation, you can ask for their help in addressing them. [/quote]

This is terrible advice. Your daughter should NOT be involved in anything to do with her roommates transition planning or discharge. The hospital might like to pass the buck because they know they like to find another person to help with transitioning a patient out. This usually is a family member. You should fly ther OP, pay for your DD to fly home this weekend for a break (then she has an excuse to give the roommate), or fly her to visit a friend in a different city. [/quote]

You misunderstand. I suggested this not so the hospital could rely on OP's DD in discharge planning, but so the staff would be aware of the extent to which DD has already been inappropriately involved and make better arrangements for roommate that don't depend on DD. The psych staff might even explicitly talk with roommate about maintaining appropriate boundaries and developing a more appropriate support system (such as parents or college staff).[/quote]

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