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kleinbl00  ·  3083 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 22, 2016

Your brother needs to either (A) be under 18 or (B) do some serious criminal violence against others to be held against his will for any real duration. Ten day psych holds are about what you can get out of a violent incident and even then, that means that the shrinks on duty think they can get him back to a semi-even keel.

I've known some profoundly impaired schizophrenics and even the most scrooge-like libertarian would rather pay for halfway houses than any other alternative. The shitty thing about schizophrenia is if you've had more than a couple episodes, you can kind of expect to be dealing with it through your 50s. The great thing about schizophrenia is once you start treating it like any other disability you can lead a semi-normal life.

I recommend E. Fuller Torrey's Surviving Schizophrenia. Your little brother will need an advocate and it sounds like that's you.

Cowboy up, and good luck.