Since 2009 a mother has been struggling with her mentally ill son who had a promising future, but she has been frustrated by the system.
For the last four years this mother, who because of the stigma attached to the illness prefers to remain anonymous, has been going “back and forth” in her attempt to get help for her son who has also become addicted to alcohol.
He was in his late twenties with a good job when one day he was not himself and walked off the job. After she took him to see a psychiatrist he was placed on medication which he later complained was making him unwell, and consequently refused to continue taking it. She got him other
