I can totally relate to this story! My son is 34 and also bipolar and schizo affective as well as adhd, impulse control disorder and fasd. He's also been on and off meds, in and out of hospitals and prisons etc. he is currently off his meds and in a psychotic state for the past two weeks and threatening suicide, he is homeless again. Nobody will help. Nobody can get him admitted to a psych hospital or won't. I am living in a different state than him. I asked the police in his city to help get him admitted and told them he was a danger to himself and others. That was over 24 hours ago and they haven't done anything. It's been a hellish nightmare for so many years. It's affected my own mental health and physical health. I have bad anxiety now and depression. The mental health system desperately needs to change and so does the prison system in the U.S.

My son is severely mentally I’ll he was diagnosed last year with schizophrenia. I have watched him lose everything. His friends his girlfriend and his hope for a future. I don’t know how to help him and I work with people with mental illness and are experiencing homelessness all day at work as a social worker but I can’t help my son because he does not want to take medicine. He’s in jail right now but it’s only making him worse. It’s the worst thing I have ever experienced

My heart aches for you, fellow mom. Most of the world does not grasp our world. 💕

My heart aches for this family. The world of mental illness is horrible and horrifying. I hope this mom connects with others like us. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

I can relate. My son is currently in a hospital .....I believe 9 th stay. He has Schizophrenia. You are not alone. Powerless for sure. My heart aches for him.

I am so sorry my daughter just died on the streets of Seattle if she has the exact diagnosis I am so sorry I'm so sorry

This humanitarian crisis is a lot closer to home then you know. You don’t have to be poor, addicted to drugs… the brain is the number one cause to taking the city streets route in life. A childhood friend of mine who lives about 1 minute away is practically a “homeless” person living in the basement of his parents house… he hasn’t bathed or changed his clothes in over 5 months… the issues that cause someone to give up are a lot more real and personal than you can imagine… you or me could be sitting on a corner holding a cup for money… you never NEVER know.

Me either maam....my son has schizophrenia and its terrible on him and those around him.

Thank you for sharing with Love.

I'm in the same boat with my son. I feel helpless too. My son refuses to get any help or take medication. He self medicates which only makes his conditions worse. He is too aggressive to live with me and I wonder how much longer he can go on like this. He said being homeless on the street feels like your treated worse than an animal and I believe it and also don't know how to stop it. We have found zero help for him to get off the streets. All they have done is put an ankle bracelet on him because he's homeless. Just finding ways to punish the homeless and make them feel like they have done something wrong. Its absolutely inhumane!

im in the same place with my son. its hell

Every homeless has a back story just like this one.

I really hope that this lady & her family are doing well today. I also hope that everybody in the comments who are experiencing this as well are good too. Love & hugs to everyone ❤

My heart goes out to you. I feel your heartbreak. My son was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 25. He's 36 now. I'm grieving. He has never lived anywhere but with family, now with his father, we divorced but are amicable. I am grateful he isn't homeless or in jail or dead! But he doesn't have anything like a life most young men his age have.

My son is 36… and he chooses to be homeless… my son has anger management issues and has chosen the wrong path… I hurt too… I know where you are coming from

My son was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia and Asperger’s at 12 he started taking his meds at 15. He continued till 24 he started in and out of mental health. He is now homeless in Austin TX right now. He believes people are after him he won’t use his cell phone or his debit card. We are still searching his personality changed something once again took over my son. I don’t know this version.

When we vote we need to research the candidate’s stance on mental health funding. Our mentally ill deserve more than that’s available to them.

My heart is heavy for every family going through this. My 19yr old is dealing with disorganized schizophrenia. It’s hard on a parent. I keep praying that God heals him. I feel defeated. I pray for healing. I’m really trying to be a supportive mother. It’s hard when he gets to a point where he doesn’t want to take his medication.

Yes…..I understand more and more 😢 it’s beyond heartbreaking. He has gone missing in CA after being in a program. His dad and I live in Washington state so feel even more helpless. He left the facility he was in with no phone, no money and no transportation. He doesn’t know the area. We have no idea if he is ok. I’m so sorry for you and your son…..you will be in my prayers ❤️

Im trying to help my sister. Its so hard she's high functioning and hides her diagnosis well until she is stressed. I feel helpless too sometimes but Im not giving up I know i can make life better for her

I care for two schizophrenic sons. It’s so heartbreaking.

My father had schizophrenia But he wasn’t in my life and no one ever told me the truth but that he was sick I never got it and had one son who’s 25 year old suffering with Crippling debilitating depression, anxiety, social anxiety and possibly more (started right after high school graduation in 2016) Both sides of the family have turned their backs on him, closed/locked their doors, changed their locks, call the cops to remove him, don’t call or answer his calls etc I’m the last one standing (his mother) Most call him lazy, crazy, rude, disrespectful, opportunist, a prick, scary He’s not professionally treated nor properly diagnosed and most likely on the wrong medication from the endless emergency room visits because he thinks he’s dying and meds most likely making him worse. He reuses therapy and psychiatry He’s on and off meds Doing all the things he thinks help him cope but it’s the very things that trigger manic episodes and he’s having them back to back to back. And after every manic episode comes the expected depression and shame of it all We’re in Florida, I was going to baker act him but from the research it sounds like the wrong way to go I’m driving after I type this to file in the courthouse to be his guardian or power of attorney so I can apply for disability, housing, and get him to the right doctors for the right meds because he hasn’t, won’t, can’t or would ever fathom doing any of that to help himself Let’s hope the judge and their medical professionals rule in my favor to help save him because I’m the last one left willing to do anything otherwise he’ll be homeless by force and I don’t want that

I’m so sorry you are going through this! My prayers 🙏 for you and your family. I agree with everything you say

😢 i understand how she feels...powerless

My son is also homeless for 3 years now. I divorced his police father 14 years ago and he took him from me form the time he was 15 and abused him and the father died and my son still thinks he is alone like he brainwashed him and it’s all mental illness. He refuses to contact me and his sister. My heart is with you. I understand ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

My eldest daughter,24,has schizophrenia. I try my best to support her/not react when she gets episodic/refuses to take medication. Without trying to sound selfish..I feel so alone/we have no support. And I'm widowed by suicide (her father's death exacerbated her illness) I feel helpless to help her,and I have 3 other children. The hospital/mental health system is a joke..Unless she's actively suicidal,all they do is dose her up/isolate her/ask obvious questions. It becomes a revolving door. Is there light at the end of the tunnel,for both carers and the unwell alike? 😔😔

Very well stated.

Ur not alone, sorry to anyone with a child or loved one they know struggling with anything like that, I know a buddy of mine who was unloved and in a foster home, they never cared, parents both do drugs, I can see the beauty he can live but is getting distracted by of course drugs and gangs 😢

Remember that was Ronald Reagan that close lots of clinics and cut benefits in mental health.

Well, would you like to hear my story of being the daughter of a brilliant bipolar narcissist? And my untreated bipolar/schizoaffective brother? Sigh.

I'm in the same boat I have given every inch of my heart and soul trying to stop my son from his fall. The money begging and drugs never stop and I'm not allowed to talk about drugs court or money I'm terrified of people that know my address now. He's.. Jekyll and Hyde. The memories of the good times haunt me, cops will do nothing Baker Acting them does nothing prison does nothing. I have become...nothing.

I know your pain 😢💔

I wish this mother all the help she needs in cleaning her home and caring for probably her spouse who is in a wheelchair. It must have been tough getting a house that cluttered organized for guests.

I can relate to this. My son was never happy from earluest age. He was eventually diagosed w schizophrenia. He was provided with housing, food. But he felt shame and hopelessness. He died by suicide. I do not blame him. Would have done the same. But it hurts a mother's heart years later

I believe you needed Brittany's parents attorneys for a conservarship & a few millions in the bank.

If someone doesn’t smile in photos much what does that mean?

What do you do cuz I'm a mother tired too my son is 51 and I do a lot of good things with him and sometimes he'll just act like everything I do is against him and then sometimes he'll hit you while you're going down the street and I'm tired of it because it causes death and I'm getting older and I just can't struggle with no more mentally but I'm trying to help him he act like I'm doing something bad and he wants to fight me for doing something good to help him and I'm tired now because he's hit me while I went down the street driving

Nuru link

Please find a NAMI family group they saved my life,we aren’t alone

I get it from a Dad

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“Mental Illness” (as in the realm we are talking, suicide, self-destructive behavior) is a symptom of a “debased mind” (Romans 1:28). When someone is so utterly given over to wickedness, hopelessness, and rejection of Christ that they kill themselves (as masochistic behavior is noted as demonic in Scripture, Mark 5:2-5; Ephesians 5:29 “no one ever hated his own flesh”), such behavior reveals there is no faith in Christ. God has made Himself very clear: “the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10), the “unbelieving” go to the lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). The Bible is not a lie.

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