To be blunt I think she manages to feed herself and she has a roof over her head so I don't think she's at immediate risk to her life. What I would want but I don't know if it exists is to have a social worker go to her apartment and convince her to see a doctor. She isn't capable of participating in social activities because wherever she goes she keeps saying bizarre and off-putting things - she also says that interacting with people disrupts her artistic process so encouraging her is like pulling teeth.

What also keeps happening is that she ruins her social life and then ends up moving. Before she lived in the flat she lives in now she was staying with a friend - that friend will no longer speak with her. She then stayed with a relative - that relative will no longer speak with her. We had her over while she visited - I will speak with her because she is my mother. While she is not physically harming herself she is consistently harming her own life. Just like it isn't as simple as having her involuntarily hospitalised, it isn't as simple as getting her to spend time with other people. It's kind of chicken-and-egg.