i really need some advice on a family situation. In January my mom was sent to a mental hospital in Kentucky. My aunt signed a petition of imcompetency. She was taken to the local hospital by the police for a mental health evaluation, saw a judge and they sent her to the state hospital for up to 60 days. She was there for 2 weeks. Refused any medication and any belief that she needed to be there. Her social worker was not very helpful in returning my calls but did inform me that they though she was either bipolar or paranoid schizo.

They just let her out one day. She was homeless and i let her come home with me. She has been here for almost 5 months and it is to the point that I see something is very wrong with her.

I CANNOT bring myself to go to the probate court and sign an affidavit and have them come pick her up again. i feel sick to my stomach . She does have a job and i dont want her to lose it. She has no place to go and will be sleeping in her car. I feel the right thing to do is go to court.

She is very dissassociated with reality. She talks to herself at 4am about needing to go to the FBI and how someone is "using her identity." She retreats to the bedroom when anyone comes to my house. She makes these off the wall associations when she hears somebodys name, like she knows them and they have done her wrong. She tells me i am being brainwashed by all the people in Ohio. She goes on mini spending sprees at the $ store buying stuff she doesnt need.

I have no experience with mental illness. I need some sound valid advice on what you would do if this was your mom.

she wakes up at 4am and is t