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Persecutory delusional disorder
My mum has been diagnosed with persecutory delusional disorder. She has no insight whatsoever and has had delusional thoughts for some time, and prior to that suffered from OCD (hoarding, anxiety).
She believes my father and I employ people to poison her, stab her, vandalise her possessions, steal from her and track her through her mobile etc.
She has lost her job, refuses to drive her car, and is effectively homeless. She is also spending money at a rate she cannot sustain i.e. Living in hotel rooms and employing security guards.
I am finding it almost impossible to get her the help she needs, despite the sympathetic help of mental health services.
She was involuntarily committed for a week recently when she approached the emergency section of a hospital claiming she'd been poisoned. This resulted in her diagnosis. She is much worse since being discharged and the hospital believes she needs to be reassessed.
Aside from my father, who is estranged from mum, I am her only relative in Australia so I cannot be implicated in getting her sectioned as I need to help with any recovery. Because she has no fixed abode it is difficult to know where she is to alert the mental health services. She is also totally 'with it' and would easily talk her way out of a police welfare check or even a mental health check not undertaken by the hospital psychiatrist who knows her...yet the hospital cannot attend a hotel without the police, but the only times we know she is at the hotel it is not possible to coordinate police and hospital to attend together!
Meanwhile she is ruining herself financially...
If anyone has advice on:
1. How to get her sectioned, and/or
2. How to secure her finances through the public trustee (without me being implicated)
Thanks
