07-11-2010, 07:38 PM
I have never had one and I thank God. My boyfriend, my parents and several medical staff all told me I would not have a guardian/conservator and didn't have to worry about being forced into any of that or even having it proposed.
However, in the mental unit I was in once a tech was giving his morning speech and talking about how we had to take the initiative and go to our job interviews. He then said: "But some of you have guardians, and can't/ The guardian won't let you. So you have to behave for the guardian so that they might let you..." or something like that.
I felt so bad for those people with guardians!
The Harris County courts can be good and bad. They keep people in institutions for no reason sometimes and don't listen to people if they say they are activists. They helped me, but I was lucky. Next time I might not be so lucky. And for the poor there is little justice; to have something entered into a court file you have to pay for every page, I think $1!
Anyway, I'd like to hear stories... I have read many many horror stories about the police, the court and the guardians being in bed together. Once when I tried to sue a psych center for false imprisonment, the lawyers said we needed a police report and the police refused to make a report, saying they agreed with the doctor that had said I had to stay, but another doc had let me go. Before, they had refused (all the staff) to let me out under the 4 hour letter law. Then they fiunally did, so something is fishy. I wasn't dangerous by then but I understand that the doc didn't know that.
The lawyer my bf used to later sue me knew the judge.
Anyway. forget Harris County, I'm tangenting again... this isn't about that, it's about guardianships. Those people in the Harris County Guardianship Program must truly be in hell. There was one woman in my bipolar group that was institutitionalized by her son, lied about by her son, and then she was held on the false evidence. She panicked and gave her friend power of attorney over her before her son could take her stuff and her freedom in a full guardianship and conservatorship. Oh yeah; this was also in Harris County. Anyway... there's a lot of good and good people there too... okay, I'll shut up now...
However, in the mental unit I was in once a tech was giving his morning speech and talking about how we had to take the initiative and go to our job interviews. He then said: "But some of you have guardians, and can't/ The guardian won't let you. So you have to behave for the guardian so that they might let you..." or something like that.
I felt so bad for those people with guardians!
The Harris County courts can be good and bad. They keep people in institutions for no reason sometimes and don't listen to people if they say they are activists. They helped me, but I was lucky. Next time I might not be so lucky. And for the poor there is little justice; to have something entered into a court file you have to pay for every page, I think $1!
Anyway, I'd like to hear stories... I have read many many horror stories about the police, the court and the guardians being in bed together. Once when I tried to sue a psych center for false imprisonment, the lawyers said we needed a police report and the police refused to make a report, saying they agreed with the doctor that had said I had to stay, but another doc had let me go. Before, they had refused (all the staff) to let me out under the 4 hour letter law. Then they fiunally did, so something is fishy. I wasn't dangerous by then but I understand that the doc didn't know that.
The lawyer my bf used to later sue me knew the judge.
Anyway. forget Harris County, I'm tangenting again... this isn't about that, it's about guardianships. Those people in the Harris County Guardianship Program must truly be in hell. There was one woman in my bipolar group that was institutitionalized by her son, lied about by her son, and then she was held on the false evidence. She panicked and gave her friend power of attorney over her before her son could take her stuff and her freedom in a full guardianship and conservatorship. Oh yeah; this was also in Harris County. Anyway... there's a lot of good and good people there too... okay, I'll shut up now...