Hello, I happened to stumble across this forum, as I sit here worried sick about my 24 yr old daughter, who has had mental problems for the past 10 years.
To make a long, long story short, she has been diagnosed thru the years with everything from PMS to paranoid schizophrenia. She has been hospitalized in the psych ward four times in the last 4 years. She now has tried to 302 herself because she can't stand living with us. She is on disability, hasn't worked for the past 4 years. She has no friends, as she hung with the druggies in HS, became so screwed up on weed, pain killers, plus the prescription meds she was suppose to be taking properly.
As it stands now, she came home from the hospital this last time, ( after she 'attempted' another manipulative suicide. ) has been very combative one minute, crying the next. We have come to the conclusion, the only way to help her is to STOP helping her. She is now staying with 'friends' until her case manager can help her find low income housing. She keeps calling trying to manipulate us and we keep telling her, we love you, but until you put forth some kind of effort, we can't do this anymore. One minute she has all the great plans to help herself, yet she fails to follow thru. Now we are trying the tough love approach .... not sure how this will turn out, but she has given us no other choice. Any thoughts or advice on this would be appreciated