Posted by onceupon on June 25, 2009, at 0:10:45
In reply to Re: is anyone around? » onceupon, posted by Dinah on June 24, 2009, at 23:57:53
Sounds like a lot of work on your part - and that you're doing the best you can within very difficult constraints.
Where I live, there are a number of county teams that begin the process of initiating commitment. I believe that legal fees are low, if any. But you would need to get her to agree to an assessment, which sounds out of the question, according to her.
You mentioned the state hospital before. People can be committed for outpatient treatment, too, which would involve case management/social work services, like you mentioned.
I just keep coming back to this being hard, hard, hard. And I'm sorry for that. I haven't had to deal with it yet with my own parents, but I can imagine that that responsibility/powerlessness mix doesn't feel so good.
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