This link was sent to us from the Treatment Advocacy Center TAC
With updated prologue
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Hello and thank you for the link. I just downloaded the book to read it.
My brother, diagnosed decades ago, remains in a housing authority-subsidized apartment which I help him maintain and navigate (lease signing, inspections, rent payment reminders and so on.) It’s a decent place. Which sounds rosy–but I always think that he’s just a few steps from homelessness not only due to “the system” but to his struggles to link cause and effect and to care about his own environment and safety to the degree that’s necessary to stay in housing. I think it’s because his illness is challenging enough. Just getting through a day battling erroneous and extraneous “voices” seems to be all he can do sometimes. He says, the laundry can wait. But it can’t wait all winter, heaped in a pile, I think. The stacked sink can wait. Can it? I ask him. Connect the dots! It’s frustrating helping him. He seems inclined to push himself out into the streets (again, as he was in his 20s) if people like me don’t assist him mightily to stay on course. We need training programs that focus on basic living skills for many people with mental illness.
Thanks again. Feels good to vent.