well she was just pushing those buttons--and maybe if she is forsed into all this treatment it will work for her at some point--it does for a lot of people...
Here in Massachusetts an Alcoholic--Drug Addict--Mental Disability(depression-bt polar) is eligible for Social Security Disability or Social Security Income---of course this has to be well documented-by doctors etc...you have to have been out of work for 6 months and it is calculated by your past working income--if you have no past working income--they have a set anount--here it is a little over 600$ a month with no backround work history and up to1400 a month if you have a work history....It has become very hard to get-you have to go before a board etc..I only know this because I am a nurse and I know woman who is mentally disabled--she gets an apartment for 160 a month--free bus passes and food stamps and free health and dental care.