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 She has been displaying symptoms of mental illness. The adults in our family have been doing the best we can to mitigate the symptoms. The behaviors just kept getting worse. Two days ago she took off from a public building for the third time. Her mother with my full support had her admitted to the mental health centre at the local hospital.

Tomorrow she will be released and there is no plan in place. I feel that if she doesn't end up there again tomorrow night it will be in less than a month. That is unless they gave her some medication to calm her down. 

As expected she arrived and within 3 days was in my care. For a day and a half I let her scream, at the end of which time she went to her maternal grandparents and then to her mother. I have agreed to take her for a few hours as needed but I will not have her stay here overnight, which I suppose was her reason for screaming all day.

My poor neighbours!

I have a minor case of PTSD after that, I hear her screaming in my mind at the oddest times. I am sorry things went that way but in the end she only has herself to blame. Oh I am sure I could of done things differently but no effort of mine got her to stop for more than a couple of hours. Not even a calming touch was enough to make her stop for long.

I am sorry for Ashley as she now needs to do this mainly on her own. Where does the root of the problem lie, I don't know but in the last year she has steadily gotten worse and worse.

I am tired of this topic it seems that all I've done over the last few months is talk about her and now I really want her out of my head for awhile.

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