thoughts sparked by jared loughner situation

[Guest guest]

I've been closely following the terrible shooting and the details about

Loughner. I read an article about how hard it is for parents to get their

children teenager or an adult mental health help or committed if needed here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-14/jared-loughners-mental\

-illness-why-wasnt-he-committed/

And it makes me think, if it's *that* hard for the parent who has the legal

authority to make a clearly mentally ill / dangerous child get help...then what

hope did we KO's ever have? First off we were the children, so if anyone were

to have forced our BPD parents to get help it would have been their parents or

related family. See article...they don't have much chance. Add to that that

so many BPD's are able to function normally to outsiders and there is so little

proof it brings the odds down to zero that any intervention can happen.

In the last paragraph on the second page of the article they detail a case where

it's an elderly parent who has gone dangerously batshit crazy and the judge

*will not* help the terrified family and just tells them to get a restraining

order. What kind of crazy world is this?