re: How many truly mentally ill people do you know?

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Now she is 31 and lives in a room at my moms..never talks to anyone or comes out unless no one is there. My mom leaves food for her outside the door and she barely eats it. If you try to knock on the door to talk to her, she usually quietly says "I'm too tired" or something. My mom also gets scathing texts that don't make much sense every now and then.

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Failure to launch. Fear of growing up.

Not to be a dick, but it sounds like your folks enable this a bit. Leaving food outside the door is strange behavior as I sincerely doubt she will choose to starve if forced to find her own food. Sounds attention craving, more than anything.

My advice, tell your family to stop coddling her and get her out of the house before a lifetime of dependency is certain.