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Friend living at home with severe mental illness
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:40 pm
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:40 pm
What would you do if you were the parent? No job, hasn't been employed in over five years and lives at home rent free. Where do you draw the line between helping and enabling?
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Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:41 pm to wazoo11
This is a good reason to never have kids.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:41 pm to wazoo11
Fortnite coach
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:41 pm to wazoo11
What sort of mental illness?
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:42 pm to wazoo11
Euthanasia and start over.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:42 pm to wazoo11
Gonna need more details on the exact illness
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:42 pm to wazoo11
Is he on disability? What kind of mental illness? Is he compliant with doctors orders and taking his medication?
These are all important factors in determining if he's really sick or just riding the gravy train.
These are all important factors in determining if he's really sick or just riding the gravy train.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:42 pm to wazoo11
Look anything you do to get my sibling out is appreciated
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:44 pm to wazoo11
What can you do? I don’t think you realize how tough the simplest things can be when you have a mental illness. You have a child, they’re your responsibility until they are capable of taking care of themselves. If they’re never capable, then there’s really nothing else you can do but help them, morally speaking.
This post was edited on 8/3/18 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:47 pm to wazoo11
Well someone with a "severe" mental illness may not be able to be employed.
Someone with a "severe" mental illness with no job (because he/she cannot have a job) cannot pay rent.
Someone with a "severe" mental illness is not being enabled.
You must not know or have never dealt with someone with a "severe" mental illness. It is a challenge.
Someone with a "severe" mental illness with no job (because he/she cannot have a job) cannot pay rent.
Someone with a "severe" mental illness is not being enabled.
You must not know or have never dealt with someone with a "severe" mental illness. It is a challenge.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:48 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Yeah he's on disability right now and has bi polar II. I'm just trying to be supportive as a friend in need. We met through a board game community.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:49 pm to wazoo11
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Yeah he's on disability right now and has bi polar II. I'm just trying to be supportive as a friend in need. We met through a board game community.
He actually started a thread earlier. He's having problems with his cousin being in charge of his trust. I'd get him some help.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:51 pm to wazoo11
What kind of mental illness are we talking about and what's the financial situation?
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:53 pm to wazoo11
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Yeah he's on disability right now and has bi polar II
I'm bipolar II. With medication its very manageable. Trileptal really helped me out. Before that, I had months where I just couldn't move or accomplish the smallest task. Since, I got on the right meds, I've had one of the best string of years I can remember.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:55 pm to wazoo11
Mental Illness is kind of a broad diagnosis. Is their mental illness preventing them from being about to get a job, live on their own, etc?
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:56 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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I'm bipolar II.
If you don’t mind me asking. What kind of episodes have you had being bipolar. I’m trying to figure out if I should get my wife diagnosed.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:57 pm to wazoo11
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Friend living at home with severe mental illness
Geez, were diagnosing the mental health of houses now?
Posted on 8/3/18 at 1:58 pm to wazoo11
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board game community
So you're mentally ill too?
Posted on 8/3/18 at 2:01 pm to ellishughtiger
Risk seeking behavior, compulsive gambling, eating and sex.
It's not as severe as Bipolar I where they are a legit danger to themselves and others, but I've zeroed out my bank account and ended up in jail more than a few times when I was still undiagnosed.
The depressed side is just your typical listlessness, suicidal ideation, feeling worthless, inability to start or finish even the simplest tasks -- like cleaning your house.
In between, there were times I was completely "normal" but those periods were always on the way up or the way down.
It's not as severe as Bipolar I where they are a legit danger to themselves and others, but I've zeroed out my bank account and ended up in jail more than a few times when I was still undiagnosed.
The depressed side is just your typical listlessness, suicidal ideation, feeling worthless, inability to start or finish even the simplest tasks -- like cleaning your house.
In between, there were times I was completely "normal" but those periods were always on the way up or the way down.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 2:01 pm to wazoo11
Go to a Dr and get put on disability, half the state is on some type of support.
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