Balancing a Loved One’s Needs: A Difficult Challenge

I called the mental health team for help with my son. He was in his twenties at the time and was living in a trailer on his own property. It was a half-acre lot with a house on the other side, but he was no longer living in the larger building. He hadn’t paid the oil or electricity bills in a long time, nor his house taxes. He had paid cash for the house a few years before having come into several hundred thousand dollars from a trust when he turned nineteen. There had been a wood stove in the house, but he found it creepy to be there without any lights. So he left it to stand alone, save for his belongings resting inside in the growing mildew. And a stack of unopened bills I found on a table in the hallway the last time I was there. <a href="https://medium.com/the-narrative-arc/balancing-a-loved-ones-needs-a-difficult-challenge-d06bcd49e56c">Website</a>