My brother-in-law has schizophrenia and occasionally has violent outburts and threatens other patients and staff members. He has been kicked out of several long term care facilities. He hasn't harmed anyone yet but has broken furniture and punched holes in the wall. We need a place that won't boot him out everytime his meds aren't doing the trick. We live in the southeast.
2007-07-21 15:31:04 · 6 answers · asked by Hammer 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Contact your local Mental Health Center or NAMI ( National Association for the Mentally Ill ) I would think that a state hospital, while a last resort, would have a means of controlling him with meds and possibly with restraints. (Though I don't know if restraints are legal.) I very much love someone with schizophrenia, so please know that I am sympathetic to your brother-in-law and to your family. Blessings and peace to you all.
2007-07-21 15:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to work for a state mental hospital in Missouri and they had a lot of people who are violent.
The psychiatric hospitals aren't really supposed to keep people long term anymore, they try to discharge them to their homes or to some kind of residential care facility. If they get combative at the RCF, they will be sent back to the mental hospital. Some patients have to stay in the hospital a lot longer than others simply because their behavior is so hard to manage. Sometimes it's tough to find the right combination of medications that will keep them out of trouble. We had some people who were on ten or twelve different psychiatric drugs at the same time; but these were the people who were so difficult to manage.
I remember one woman who used to bite people; she didn't even talk. We kept her for maybe 15 or 20 years, and we finally got her placed. She didn't even last one day and she was back in the hospital.
There was one hospital in the state that took all the most difficult people. If we had somebody we couldn't handle anymore, we generally had them transferred to this place. Your state may have something like that.
2007-07-21 15:51:04 · answer #2 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your brother-in-law should have a social worker or some other type of case manager who should be looking for an acceptable place for him to live. Contact your local Department of Children and Families to find out how he can be assigned to someone.
2007-07-21 15:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charter Peachford Hospital in Dunwoody, GA
http://www.peachfordhospital.com/
2007-07-21 15:40:11 · answer #4 · answered by michele 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Eastern State Hospital in Kentucky, I'm pretty sure they accept patients like that.
2007-07-21 15:34:17 · answer #5 · answered by LolaC☼ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forensic institutions often accept patients like your brother. Many state facilities have forensic wards.
2007-07-21 15:39:24 · answer #6 · answered by wyllow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋