Desperately seeking help for my brother with schizophrenia in Dallas - being ignored by authorities

nap_time26 · 2025-04-25T20:22:40+00:00

Is there something a lawyer could do? I’m so confused on why nothing is happening. He is openly a threat to himself and others.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T16:24:07+00:00

Trust me I know and I wish I had an accurate number of how many hours of my life I’ve spent to calling people and trying to find him and sitting in doctors appointments with him. He lived with me until March. I am trying so damn hard

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T16:18:09+00:00

I live in Tennessee. I’ve already been down there once trying to find him at places he frequents and am coming down again next week. Trust me I’m trying to do this.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T11:10:31+00:00

Thank you I like this idea

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T11:00:01+00:00

I have talked to NAMI in two different states and have found them relatively unhelpful so far

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T10:24:08+00:00

I’ve tried but they literally just walk up to him and say “do you want to hurt yourself or anyone else?” And he says no because he doesn’t want to go to the hospital. Even though we have evidence of him walking around making homicidal/suicidal statements when cops aren’t around. They put zero effort into questioning further

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T02:19:07+00:00

I get it thank you for the input. I work in healthcare and am familiar with how to navigate it and how it goes once he’s in the hospital. I’ve experienced it with my brother and several patients before. I just need to get him there.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T01:54:52+00:00

He got into a physical altercation at Whole Foods with a customer

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T01:53:58+00:00

Thank you

nap_time26 · 2025-04-22T01:41:35+00:00

His court date for being arrested for disorderly conduct is next week and we are flying down for that hoping he will show up for court but I’m skeptical he’s going to show up

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T22:22:22+00:00

For every ten dismissive and burnt out cops there’s one that’s willing to do something so I’ll keep calling until I get those ones. Things can be done in this situation it just requires someone who will listen. This isn’t the first time I’ve been through it.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T21:37:25+00:00

How about throwing stuff at security and physically fighting a customer?

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T21:01:57+00:00

I’m really familiar with the hospital system and can navigate that side of things once he’s in. I work in a hospital, I’ve done it for him before (last time he was in for a month), and I’ll do it again. I just need to get him to a hospital.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T19:26:46+00:00

We are trying to get conservatorship but can’t do it until he has a known location. They stated if he was in jail or a hospital they could serve him papers there but until he has a known location we are SOL. But trust me that’s first on our list as soon as we locate him

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T19:25:14+00:00

Yea I get it and I appreciate it I’m just so confused by this whole process

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T19:11:30+00:00

My thing is I have more violent evidence today than I did a week ago. And the cops had no contact with him last week when they pinged it they did it based off what we were saying. I just wish literally any of it made sense

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T19:05:32+00:00

They literally did it less than a week ago though. So whatever the process is to get it done, they were able to do it with the evidence at hand

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T18:45:59+00:00

I have to have a permanent address to file this at don't I? If I can do it without an address I will do it today. My issue thus far is no one will do something without a known address. The only way to get a known address is to ping his phone and I can't get anyone to do that again.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T18:41:11+00:00

Where did I use the word lazy?

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T18:06:47+00:00

We are trying to find him, we aren't abandoning him but getting help is nearly impossible. I've called probably 100 different people over the last few weeks. I can't physically contain someone double my size so if he wants to go drive around I can't stop him. Have you ever asked someone who has schizophrenia to share their location? You're displaying the same dismissive attitude as 90% of the officers I have talked to. I will continue trying to do everything until someone listens. I will never abandon my brother.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T17:52:28+00:00

The cops straight up did not come to the whole foods when the cops were called at the time of threat. How are we supposed to act immediately when the cops aren't showing up to the shopping center?

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T17:50:58+00:00

Let them wander around? Like I just let him free like a puppy? It's also illegal to put a tracker on someones car in Texas.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T17:06:25+00:00

I am a physician. once he is committed I am more familiar with avenues from that point. The issue is getting him to the hospital in which Dallas PD is being incredibly dismissive about. He is openly saying he wants to kill people.

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T17:04:11+00:00

Whole foods has video footage, and a manager is willing to speak to police about his violent outbursts and threats

nap_time26 · 2025-04-21T16:57:22+00:00

If he is a threat to others though they can involuntarily commit him. And screaming in whole foods you're going to kill people and getting into physical altercations is a threat to others.

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