Involuntary Commitment?

[LostDream]

I'm posting this again and separately, because I think it got overlooked in the other thread.

My situation seems as bad as recovering from the disease itself... being in a relationship that you can actually see dying, and the person killing it, killing themselves. :cries2:

And that's my point "doc," I've heard of something called "Involuntary Commitment," and I need to know something on how to do it.

My AW has gone so far over the edge that sometimes she actually scares me. :scared1: My nerves are shot because at this point I never know what she's going to do or say. We can't plan anything cause she won't go out - just sits in her little room and drinks all day then argues all night.

I called the county once and they said she had to be a danger to herself and to others. Well, is killing herself enough? Cause by all intents and purposes, that's what she's doing.

When I was into my alcoholism (sober eight years), I saw so many friends and relatives die of alcoholism, and it hurts me to watch her personal destruction day by day. I think the only way she'll ever even think of getting "well," is if she is locked away with time to actually think! Dry.


How does one go about this? It's ninety days, and I hear with all that time, a person may finally have the time to "get it." Detox hasn't worked. 20 days didn't work. It's just a revolving door with the treatment centers and in a few days she's back at it!

I'm at my wits end. So many thousands of dollars wasted on her, just to come back and in no time, she's in the drunken haze of incoherancy all over.

Do they come and take them aways or what. And how could I do where she wouldn't know and run and hide, before they came? Cause that's what she'd do and then boy, I know there'd be hell to pay if it didn't work. :argue:

[MarkSichelCSW]

Please see the other thread for my response.