Quote From: ann__marieThere is some help in the US for people with mental health issues. First check out your local mental health agency. Second contact NAMI, national alliance for the mantally ill. Third if it comes down to it write letters, and don't take no for an answer. Your loved ones need you to take a stand and fight for them when they cannot. My advice, just keep pushing and prodding, and don't take no for an answer.
Ann Marie
We have been butting our heads against the wall for my son's situation also. He is mentally ill due to crystal meth use for many years. He was a functioning drug addict for years. No one knew he was doing meth. He also drank and I felt too much and tried to get him to see that to do avail. This past year when everyone around him found out he was doing meth things started to fall apart. He has lived with a girl for several years, and she was trying to get him help for quite a while before bringing me in on his problem. She was having domestic problems with him, and him not admitting there was a problem, etc. I could go on and on, but the bottom line is there are no facilities that will help unless he is going to kill himself or others.
After many weeks of being turned down for assistance, he tried to hang himself and his neighbor found him and they got him to the hospital where they finally put him into a facility, but they kept him for only 72 hours. They want to treat him as out patient, but he can't function in the world. How would we get him to the out patient facility regularly. Some days is just unmanageable.
I agree there is no help out there. Yes he did this to himself, but so have most people with a physical or mental problem. We have a poor lifestiyle one way or the other causing heart attacks, strokes, etc, which cause long term health care to happen, and there are places to go for that, but not Mental illness.
Paulette Jones.
