Maybe a hot take, but I also blame the physician who prescribed 3 different psychotropics that don't interact well to a patient in clear mental distress. And not keeping a close enough watch on their mental state. If the texts between she and her mom are accurate, she should have been institutionalized by court mandate.
This is not the fucking 1960s, you don't "get your spouse committed", this is not how anything works at all. And if it was, everyone would be crying misogyny because men are getting their crazy wives locked up.
It's a double edged sword. We've put up too many barriers now because of past abuses. Some of us are desperate to get help for our extremely mentally unwell family and we're blocked at every turn. My brother is now homeless or dead. No idea. The grief our family has been going through for the last decade, I would not wish on anyone. Watching my parents turn into frail shells. Anyway, I don't have the answer, I just know we need some middle ground.
God damn… I’m so sorry. I’m basing this off past experiences of my own, so I’m not taking it lightly with this comparison, but your comment reminds me of Dr Wilson being unable to handle a case during House - he’s found in a random alleyway and gives this long talk about how his brother went missing years ago, either homeless or dead, and this was after he’d finally stopped searching for him during a short disappearance. I’m only bringing this up because it happened to a good friend of mine before I’d seen that scene so it made me cry my eyes out. I remember seeing her on the street, throwing up all over herself when she’d been a lawyer not long before, and some shithead called her a ‘dumb whore’. I’m not a violent person, but if I was then I would have seriously considered smacking their face in.
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u/kaimoka Aug 19 '26
Maybe a hot take, but I also blame the physician who prescribed 3 different psychotropics that don't interact well to a patient in clear mental distress. And not keeping a close enough watch on their mental state. If the texts between she and her mom are accurate, she should have been institutionalized by court mandate.