Posted on 09/15/2022 1:39:49 PM PDT by Drew68
The son is actually 15 years old, it states in some of the responses.
Well there’s not enough information to determine that one way or the other.
really?
Mother’s word?
Look at the level of destruction.
My experience says she is telling the truth.
Saw a patient kick their way out through a wall and jump two stories.
i wouldn’t accept the mothers word for this. Obvious she’s had issues prior at keeping a stable household.
Agreed. But, the mom says he is mentally ill and that he's been refusing to take his medication. I will take her word for it.
That does NOT mean his behavior is excusable. It just means that maybe she has been doing the best she can, but now she can no longer control him. In her shoes, I would send him to live somewhere else where his behavior can be controlled. This is too dangerous now, not only for her but also for her other child(ren).
Went thru that with my co-worker who’s son wouldn’t take his medication....it’s very common they won’t. Hpwever then that’s the time for institutional living which it’s long past this for that mother - this is not his first time.
I think we all agree that, when a teenager begins committing this level of violence and destruction, he really should be placed in an institution.
But, would this parent be allowed to commit her son to an institution? The laws are different today.
If you read on, you’d know that I self-denigrated mea culpa with a “why would I have to read the article” comment.
You are right about many things here.
But, regardless, I am not an “asshole”. At least, not all of the time.
No only the government can commit.
family is nearly helpless here.
It is a social tragedy
Once he’s legal age - no - the parens can’t.
That is a shame. One of the arguments against parents/family committing a family member is that the process can be abused. People could be misdiagnosed, over-diagnosed, over-medicated, and/or locked away for life.
But, now, if a mentally ill family member becomes violent and destructive, the family’s only option may be to call the police? Then the police have to treat the situation as dangerous, and sometimes the family member ends up dead.
Or, the person with mental illness ends up living on the streets. Or, that person ends up hurting or killing someone.
It seems a mental health institution would be a better option.
All the past shortcomings of state mental hospitals do not come near the horrorshow of our current mental health system.
We should be ashamed.
One of the worst things was when mental Insitutions were closed down. Now they’re in tents in every street as addicts or worse. ...in prisons where they’re used and abused or they use and abuse.
Quite.
I’ve almost become inured to the number of kids under the age of 20 who have come through my hospitals psych unit. I ask the staff why.
The one answer I get is: “Parents’’.
It's not just kids or hospitals ...any facility housing or caring for mental patients risks getting injured by the patients.
My sister was refused sedatives while a dastardly brain disease ate away any ability whatsoever to control her raging violent behavior.... But laws now on sedating patients would not permit them to sedate her even though she had hit other patients, grabbed and injured staff, and also visiting family members. She had a most miserable existence....and so did those caring for her.
It was not until she stopped eating and was in the death thros they finally sedated her. Trust me we called commissioners, politicians, owners of the facility to no avail. It was well beyond heartbreaking.
It looks like the kid had fun, fun, fun now that mommy took the i-phone away.
I'm not sure how the protocols for sedation work but I know liberals were behind things like that, the same as the misguided idiots closed down mental institutions in the belief that they were ‘’barbaric and it was thought just releasing mentally ill people into the ‘’community’’ was much more ‘’humane'' I know in the hospital I work a violent or aggressive patient will be ordered by a doctor or if the nursing staff director and or the chief of the security detail will order a violent patient to be ''physically restrained''( leather straps, ''four point restraint'') or a doctor will order ''chemical restraint''( meds).
On restraints - her husband asked they lock the wheelchair in place and restrain her after she went after another patient - they said the law doesn’t allow them to restrain her. It was a constant battle I tell you. Even taking her to the emergency room they said to stop bringing her there as nothing more they could do for her. Trying to get a different facility proved impossible because of her violent behavior. Round and round we went as the dastardly disease destroyed her brain.
BTW - these patients have no boundaries on the strength they use. It took three people to get her to ungrasp her hands off a staffs crotch she had latched onto! It’s beyond belief they would not sedate her!
Thank God, and after much prayer my sister went home with Jesus last year. She is no longer in misery but enjoying the Lord and all those she knew who went on before her - and at last in her own right mind!
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