Question...

How many times do you have to "try" and commit suicide before you get the help you are evidently asking for?

My sister-in-law ("SIL") must be now on her 100th time of trying to kill herself and still her phychaitrist won't commit her. Every time she does this, she takes pills and then tells someone hey, I took pills! So she is taken to the ER where she is given charcoal or has her stomach pumped. This last time she did it twice in one day except the first time she took her pills, went to the ER, had some charcoal and went home. So, evidently she got bored around midnight or so got up and called 911 and told them that she had drank a whole bottle of 409. My brother was awaken by an officer telling him they were taking the SIL to the hospital yet again. The first time the ambulance picked her up she told them that she just wanted to go to sleep and that is why she took all the pills. Not real sure what taking the 409 would have done for her. However, after all the tests were performed, it turns out, she never actually drank the 409. Now this was just last week!

Now, why after all the trips to the hospital and all the "suicide" attempts does someone not step in and give her some help? We can't commit her becuase she is free white and over 21. She commits herself and then gets frustrated after three days of things not helping and checks herself out again. So, now what? My poor mother goes over there almost every single day to take care of the two kids who have to live in this unstable environment.

I just dont understand why it is that she is still allowed to live in this home with these two children putting them at risk when she is obviously asking for help and her doctors wont give it to her.

Now what??????