Reply #44: Shelters do not do intakes [View All]

[JuniperLea]

Social Services will not get involved unless the person is proven to be harmful to herself or others.

You cannot force a person to be evaluated unless the person is proven to be harmful to herself or others.

You cannot force a person to keep their appointments. Read the California Patient's Rights Act.

The only way to have full control over a mentally ill person is to get conservertorship over that person, that is where civil court comes in. It costs thousands of dollars to proceed in that action.

Please your own damn self. You have experience with ONE person for five years and I don't know how bad off that person is. I have battled social services, courts and care givers for over thirty years in California and Washington state. Where do you get your information? It seems to me your post, the one I'm responding to, shows very little knowledge in this area. And I still resent your "sloth" comment. WE don't know this woman's family. WE don't know what they have gone through or for how long.

To top it all off... this is a disease that is inherited genetically!! Most show symptoms by the time they are in their late teens or early twenties. Some not until they are thirty. The shear terror of waiting for a son or daughter to grow a little and start showing symptoms too... jeebus h. cripes.... this is gawdawful.