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When your adult child makes dangerous mental health decisions

My eighteen-year-old refuses to take his medication now that he is legally an adult and I watch him unravel and there is nothing I can do legally to help him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent experiences the agony of helplessness when their child gains legal autonomy but lacks the capacity to make safe choices.

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