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How do I treat my mentally ill adult daughter?
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<blockquote data-quote="Looking For Hope" data-source="post: 763097" data-attributes="member: 20495"><p>I am retired and have Medicare for insurance. I have no coverage for legal fees. I think you may be right about my daughter being almost comfortable with the homeless life. No one tells her what to do or where to go. She will not utilize anything offered by the city, state or federal government. She is very paranoid She says "the government is watching her." She had a food card for awhile under the SNAP program, but didn't like their rules about proving your lack of income. She won't go to shelters or soup kitchens. She has learned what restaurants will give her food and buys a little food with the money I give her. She says she will get an apartment but no one will realistically rent to her and Los Angeles has a severe shortage of affordable apartments. I told her I would help her more if she sees a psychiatrist but she refuses. She says I have the problem, not her. Under the laws of Conservatorship in California the person has to be "gravely disabled". If she can beg for food or pay for it with my money she is not considered gravely disabled. She also is able to buy clothes, but often has holes in her clothes. I would have to cut her off entirely which is hard for me to do. I am considering doing that, but her sister would be very upset with me and I want to maintain that relationship because she is the mother of my only grandchildren. We have tried outreach social workers, but my homeless daughter will just run in the other direction. we even offered to put her in a condo we almost bought, but she refused to live there because "she didn't pick it out herself". Also she wanted to be the sole owner. She says she doesn't want to live in my county. So she takes the train 50 miles once a month from LA to Orange County to visit me overnight, once a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Looking For Hope, post: 763097, member: 20495"] I am retired and have Medicare for insurance. I have no coverage for legal fees. I think you may be right about my daughter being almost comfortable with the homeless life. No one tells her what to do or where to go. She will not utilize anything offered by the city, state or federal government. She is very paranoid She says "the government is watching her." She had a food card for awhile under the SNAP program, but didn't like their rules about proving your lack of income. She won't go to shelters or soup kitchens. She has learned what restaurants will give her food and buys a little food with the money I give her. She says she will get an apartment but no one will realistically rent to her and Los Angeles has a severe shortage of affordable apartments. I told her I would help her more if she sees a psychiatrist but she refuses. She says I have the problem, not her. Under the laws of Conservatorship in California the person has to be "gravely disabled". If she can beg for food or pay for it with my money she is not considered gravely disabled. She also is able to buy clothes, but often has holes in her clothes. I would have to cut her off entirely which is hard for me to do. I am considering doing that, but her sister would be very upset with me and I want to maintain that relationship because she is the mother of my only grandchildren. We have tried outreach social workers, but my homeless daughter will just run in the other direction. we even offered to put her in a condo we almost bought, but she refused to live there because "she didn't pick it out herself". Also she wanted to be the sole owner. She says she doesn't want to live in my county. So she takes the train 50 miles once a month from LA to Orange County to visit me overnight, once a month. [/QUOTE]
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