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Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 08:38 PM Jul 2015

What can we do to help this girl? [View all]

We are in the midwest and she is on the west coast. So distance is a problem. She is a very bright girl, a former computer programmer with a large well known company. But now she is unemployed and homeless, living in her car. She exhibits signs of being a paranoid schizophrenic. She hears voices, 'them' who are 'after her'. She's wrapped her lap top in aluminum foil to stop 'them' from accessing it.
She has money, or at least she had money from her job.

Her grandparents went out there to make contact with her but she wouldn't see them. Her Mother had gone out there and managed to get her committed for three days but she was able to convince the staff that she was OK. And now she won't have any contact with her mother.

My wife and I would like to out there to swoop her up and take her home but I don't know how we could do that if she didn't want to cooperate. We can't even take her home by plane because she has thrown away her driver's license and all other ID because she doesn't want to be 'found by them'. We can only imagine the problems we would encounter by trying to bring her home, against her will, by car.

The last person that she is still in contact with out there says she looks malnourished and unkempt.

We are afraid for her life.

Any suggestions!

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