These are some notes I took as I was talking to Mother. It was at the height of our illness and she was "way out there." It may have been the day before her trial for a conservatorship. In California, if you want to put a person on a conservatorship, that person has the right to a jury trial to prove that they need that kind of help. Mother demanded the trial. I and about three psychiatrists testified that she needed a conservator and it took the jury about ten minutes to come back with the decision that she in fact did need it. She was furious, but it was the start of a reasonable facsimile of life for her.
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