Well, unfortunately for me my experience with this process has been one that traumatized me on top of already being traumatized. My ex-lawyer was trying to practice even though he was mentally failing. It was so bad that even the firm he was part of broke up so they could distance from him. Unfortunately, when someone is declining into dementia they at first practice denial and can be very good at putting on an act of being capable when in fact their ability to actually remember and do tasks is increasingly becoming more and more difficult for them. They can be very "smart" as they always were, however, as I mentioned, doing tasks gets harder and harder for them as was the case with my attorney. I had tried to get rid of him but EVERY lawyer I reached out to knew him and he had been a great lawyer in his day. NO ONE would help me, it had to get so blatently bad that eventually I found a lawyer that recognized that yes, it was bad.

Unfortunately, that was a major trigger because that is also what happened with my neighbors too, their negligence caused so much damage that I was completely overwhelmed. Then, when I developed a post traumatic stress breakdown, and ended up in a psych ward, the psychiatrist also completely missed ALL THE CLEAR RED FLAGS I was expressing that said TRAUMA PATIENT, and he failed me too.

Then my older sister also treated me badly and literally blamed me while I was actually experiencing PTS SHOCK. Then my husband was also mean to me, and my neighbors kept on intruding.

I have been treated so badly and as my therapist has said, been retraumatized so much that the period of my being able to recover and deserved to have the right treatment, came and went to where I develope full blown PTSD.

That is why I really cannot tell others "how long" based on my own experience because of how many times I have been retraumatized, even by professionals that were supposed to actually "help me" who completely failed me instead.

My exlawyer last I heard has 11 malpractice suits against him. He ruined his own career by continuing to practice when he could not mentally do so. I have not pursued that myself because quite honestly, the thought of sueing anyone else and how long that could take and keeping this trauma going on even longer would be too much for me.

Getting "help" when a lawyer is failing you is NOT AS EASY AS PEOPLE THINK, I have lived it and searched the net, called the court house, tried to get advice and NO ONE would advise me, they can't really do that. Also, this lawyer had my medical file, he could have just called "me" crazy in his defense. Even an old pro who is declining mentally is able to "self protect". Needless to say being around Lawyers now is a major trigger, whether I want it to be or not.