What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[mnhtnbb]

254. My heart goes out to you and your son.

I have a friend--curiously enough in the Philly area--who has an adult son living with her
that she thinks is paranoid schizophrenic. He had been living on his own--after finishing law school
in Illinois and blowing through $1million--yes, you read that correctly--that his father (her ex-husband)
had given him. No job, evicted and forced to move to a dump, and she flew back to Illinois
and managed to convince him to come visit her in Philly. He did, and never returned to Illinois.
That's been about 5 years ago. His father refuses to have anything more to do with him.

He is still unemployed, up all night doing who knows what on the computer/internet, but manages
to function adequately at family gatherings. He absolutely refuses to seek any kind of mental
health treatment. My friend is the one who has been seeing a psychiatrist, learning how to
live with this son.

She, too, wrestles with what will happen to him when she is gone...she is my age: 64.