meltdowns have to stop or I will have to go to a group home

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I've had severe meltdowns for years since childhood, severe enough i had them in class everyday, though sometimes they will not be as bad for a few years as an adult.

I for sure have bipolar disorder, but they have tried to diagnose me with an ASD.

Lately there has been a resurgence of this behavior, triggered by my husband's chronic illnesses and him being sick. They have changed my medication and increased it at least 20 times the last couple of years and I've ended up in the psych ward 6 times.

Now they are saying that my husband is the trigger and to spend less time with him. If that doesn't help, I'm going to be separated from him and sent to a group home.

What can I do?

I have the same issue as you. I was told I will be sent to a group home because my behavior at home is completely unbearable. I've managed to avoid this by spending time in very high quality expensive private clinics. In fact, I'm writing this post from a clinic.

Can you get a meltdown room or area? Not sure how you meltdown but if you can control it enough to go to a specific room where you can scream, hit or kick a specific impossible to break wall or surface, or have some old furniture or objects it is ok to kick or smash this is one idea. Not to stop meltdowns, but to channel them where it is not damaging. And have others understand they are to leave you alone during this.

I'm curious who can forcibly separate you from your husband and send you to a home, does someone have guardianship over you?

Local mental health has threatened to do this, but I was told what they said was illegal. I do not know what the laws are regarding this and if they can really do this. I do not have a guardian.

Now husband is hospitalized again... if they cannot find out how to make him more well I don't know how to handle it.

Michigan law provides for involuntary commitment only when the committed individual's observed or reported behavior is likely to present a risk to himself or herself, or others. Psychological conditions alone aren't enough to require involuntary commitment. My guess is that maybe your husband's physician is suggesting that this risk might be a concern in your husband's ongoing treatment and improvement.

I won't offer solutions here because I don't know you, but finding ways to mitigate and reduce your meltdowns as others have suggested would certainly help in your defense from an involuntary commitment. Your husband is working to improve his condition. It appears at the moment, you need to improve your condition, too.

Good luck.

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