My Daughter's Mental Illness is Hurting Everyone

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Kris is distraught over her inability to help her mentally ill daughter improve her life. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious xm triumph 111.
0:11.0	Chris welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Laura, we've been traveling this week and we've been hearing you on the radio and I have a lot of
0:19.5	drama in my life that I want to get under control. I am 60, my daughter is 40. She is married living away from her husband because of
0:29.0	conflict with him. She has two children. One is 17, it's a female, and my grandson is 12, and he lives with his father.
0:39.0	The 17-year-old granddaughter lives with me and my husband.
0:42.0	And we don't know how to help her. She's been somewhat
0:48.3	delusional for the last three years. It happened 20, 20, 20 year COVID in October and we don't know how to
0:57.4	get her under control she has had some drinking in the past I know're upset, but how does anybody know how to get anybody else under control?
1:07.0	There's no law that you can get her into psychotherapy.
1:10.5	You can't get her arrested unless she breaks the law?
1:13.0	So I don't understand can you ask me something that's doable?
1:17.0	Don't ask the things that are not doable.
1:21.0	I don't know what to do.
1:22.0	You take care of the kid. What you do is you take care of the child. What you do is you take care of the child. What to do is take care of the child?
1:33.4	The dad is taking care of one child,
1:35.6	you're taking care of the other.
1:37.6	That's what you can do.
1:39.8	Nothing else.
1:45.0	Even though she seems to be mentally ill. Tell me the law that allows you to do it.
1:48.0	Ma'am, I'm sorry.
1:50.0	There is none.
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