Home > Research Legal Advice > Health Care > My mother is in a psychatric facility, because she cut herself i am in i...
Asked 12 months ago - Chicago, IL
Flagher social worker is not the best as my mother tells us they other patients say that that social worker is the worst, the doctors have evaluated her and state that she is well, in fact a doctor told her she will be released in a matter of days but the last word comes from the social worker. Also my mother has a tumor in the left side of her head which she takes medicine, she tells us that they are not giving her the medicine on time. She also has blurried vision in her right eye and it is in fact very red. She is in Tinley park mentel health center. do i need a lwayer? if so what type of lawyer?
What are you trying to accomplish? If you are seeking your mother's release, you have already been told that will come. It sounds like your mother needs a great deal of medical, not legal care.Was she placed in Tinley voluntarily, in which case she can leave any time, or was she committed on the advice of her doctor or after a judicial hearing? Do you have aplan to help you mother after she is released? There isn't much we can do here. Be
You need to hire an attorney who practices on mental health issues to cut through the red tape and the correct factual basis for your mother's confinemt. If she was committed for criminal charges then you need a lawyer who has dealt with criminal confinement as there ia procedure to follow to obtain a hearing.
If it is a civil confinement I would start with the CoolCointy Public Guardian.
Don't speak legalese? We define thousands of terms in plain English.
Browse our legal dictionary